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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160042756 | OPTICAL INFORMATION PLAYBACK DEVICE AND ADJUSTMENT METHOD - The objective of the present invention is, using an optical system which performs adjustment, to allow a reference beam optical system to be adjustable with high accuracy. The present invention is an optical information reproduce device which reproduces back information that has been recorded using angle-multiplexing holography on an optical information recording medium, said optical information reproduce device being provided with: a light source for generating a reference light; a first actuator which varies the angle of the reference light that is incident to the optical information recording medium; phase conjugate generation means configured by combining a condenser lens which generates phase-conjugated beams of light that has been transmitted through the optical information recording medium, and a movable mirror; a second actuator which drives the movable mirror; and a reference light measurement unit which measures divergence and convergence of the reference light from the phase conjugate generation means. | 02-11-2016 |
20150221331 | HOLOGRAM RECORDING DEVICE AND HOLOGRAM RECORDING METHOD - Appropriate recording with respect to a hologram recording medium is to be realized. After a region recording process of arranging holograms in which information is recorded at a predetermined interval in a first predetermined region of the hologram recording medium, and before a post-curing with respect to the first predetermined region is performed, signal light and reference light are applied onto a region different from the first predetermined region to perform information recording. | 08-06-2015 |
20150179208 | OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING DEVICE - An optical information reproducing device, takes advantage of holography and can precisely detect a well-known pattern disposed at a prescribed location within a page and is used for correcting position deviation, rotation deviation, and magnification deviation. The optical fiber reproducing device includes a detection unit that detects the position information of a marker as a well-known pattern from a page as a 2-dimensional reproduction signal from a hologram, a detection error position estimating unit that estimates presence/absence of detection error in the position information of the marker and estimates the position where the detection error occurs if there is detection error, a position correcting unit that corrects the marker position information of the detection error position specified by the detection error position estimating unit, and a signal detection unit that detects each signal from within the page based on the corrected marker position information. | 06-25-2015 |
20150131424 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCTION DEVICE, RECORDING CONDITION ADJUSTMENT METHOD, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An optical information recording/reproduction device appropriately adjusting a recording condition and a method and a medium therefor are provided in order to cope with a problem that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) during reproduction decreases, unless the condition during recording is adjusted, because of variation in the environment during recording, variation of components such as laser output, variation of production of the device, and the like in the optical information recording/reproduction device using holography. In an optical information recording/reproduction device configured to record or reproduce information to an optical information recording medium by using holography, a recording condition is adjusted, before user data are recorded, in an adjustment area provided for recording condition adjustment in an optical information recording medium. | 05-14-2015 |
20150085633 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD - An optical information recording apparatus configured to record information into an information recording medium by using holography, the apparatus including: a signal generation unit configured to generate two-dimensional data; and a two-dimensional spatial light modulator unit configured to display the two-dimensional data and to spatially modulate a transmitted or reflected beam, wherein the two-dimensional spatial light modulator unit includes a signal region and an external region, the signal region displays two-dimensional data based on user data, the external region displays two-dimensional data not including the user data, and the signal generation unit generates two-dimensional data in such a manner that a frequency of the two-dimensional data displayed on the external region becomes equal to or larger than a frequency of the two-dimensional data displayed on the signal region. | 03-26-2015 |
20150043321 | CHANNEL BITWORD PROCESSOR, PRML DECODER, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE - It is an objective of the present invention to provide a technique, when using fixed-length run-length limit codes based on enumeration, that generates fixed-length channel bit words satisfying maximum run-length limitation using a simple configuration. A channel bit word processor according to the present invention includes an avoidance list that describes a difference between a user bit word satisfying a maximum run-length limitation of run-length limit code and a user bit word not satisfying the maximum run-length limitation. The channel bit word processor, if a user bit word does not satisfy the maximum run-length limitation, generates a channel bit word using a user bit word after the difference is added. | 02-12-2015 |
20150009788 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCTION METHOD - Provided are an optical information recording/reproduction device and an optical information recording/reproduction method with which retry data during verify error detection can be efficiently recorded. In the optical information recording/reproduction device for recording data on an optical information recording media and reproducing data from an optical information recording medium, if verify error data is detected at a first cure unit region on the optical information recording medium, verify error retry data is recorded at a second cure unit region which is different to the first cure unit region. | 01-08-2015 |
20140344642 | MODULATION/DEMODULATION METHOD, DEMODULATION APPARATUS, AND CODE MODULATION METHOD - Patterns that might be generated due to a burst error are prepared beforehand. These patterns are formed by shifting all “1”s in an original channel word. A list of these patterns generated as described above is retrieved in parallel with a general conversion table during demodulation. When the demodulation is interrupted due to the burst error, the result of the retrieval of the previous pattern is referred to, and when there is a hit, the error is regarded as the burst error of the original channel word, and the demodulation is continued. | 11-20-2014 |
20140333837 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus having an input unit for inputting an image signal and an image corrector for correcting the input image signal is disclosed. The image corrector is arranged to extract from the input image signal a specular reflection component and a diffuse reflection component and generate a corrected image signal based on a computation result with respect to these specular and diffuse reflection components thus extracted. This image corrector is adaptable for use in various types of image processors, including projectors, display devices and imaging devices. | 11-13-2014 |
20140313491 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH LIGHT MASKING - According to the present invention, a projection type image display apparatus enables control of a large amount of light masking through a light-masking unit while maintaining a uniform illumination distribution in an area to be illuminated by the illumination light. The apparatus uses two array lenses on which lens cells are arranged in matrix form, where light-masking unit masks the array lens installed on the light source side in their particular area. The light-masking unit adjusts the amount of light emitted from the light source. The light-masking area of lens cells adjacent to lens cells closest to an optical axis is made smaller than the light-masking area of other cells. | 10-23-2014 |
20140307000 | DISPLAY DEVICE - In a display device provided with a frame memory developing an auxiliary line image as a display image and a means of reading out and displaying the image data developed in the aforementioned frame memory, the aforementioned auxiliary line image is constituted by background pixels and dashed auxiliary lines constituted by pixels which have luminance or color that is different from that of the background color and pixels with have nearly identical luminance or color to that of the background color; and by carrying out the display of the dashes so as to move, at fixed time intervals or arbitrary time intervals, the dash display areas of the aforementioned auxiliary lines on the trajectory of the figure described by the aforementioned auxiliary lines, the system is devised to display the auxiliary lines while controlling that an identical pixel of the display device is not displayed continually. | 10-16-2014 |
20140301176 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus for recording information on a recording medium and/or reproducing information from the recording medium, includes: a laser light source for performing recording and/or reproducing information; a shielding part, using a liquid crystal, that can switch between transmission and interception of laser light emitted from the laser light source; a driving circuit for driving the switching between transmission and interception of the shielding part; a moving part for relatively moving the shielding part and the laser light; and a controlling circuit for controlling the moving part. The moving part relatively moves the shielding part and the laser light so as to switch a region to which the laser light is applied from a first region of the shielding part to a second region thereof different from the first region, in order to prevent the liquid crystal from deteriorating. | 10-09-2014 |
20140298451 | Projection Type Image Display Device - A projection type image display device provided with an unauthorized use preventing system includes a button unit or a remote controller for operating the display device, a condition memory for storing information indicating at least one use condition in an authorized use of the display device, a password memory for storing a password for releasing a restriction on the use of the display device, a detector for detecting a used condition of the display device at a power on timing, and a processor for imposing restrictions on the use of the display device when the use condition detected by the detector does not match the at least one use condition indicated by the information stored in the condition memory and for relieving the restriction based upon input of the password. | 10-02-2014 |
20140286425 | IMAGE DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF USING INTER-CODED PREDICTIVE ENCODING CODE - An image encoding device and corresponding decoding device are disclosed for achieving a high rate of compression. The encoding device includes an image conversion module that converts the direction of the images using right-left symmetry mode convention or up-down symmetry mode conversion. Encoding modules are used to encode both the unconverted and converted images. A mode selector module compares the quantity of codes in the encoded unconverted images and the quantity of codes in the encoded converted images, and selects codes that are smaller in the quantity of codes for output. | 09-25-2014 |
20140286152 | DATA RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE, ARCHIVE SYSTEM, AND RECORDING CONTROL METHOD - A data recording/reproducing device for recording data on a recordable area of a recording medium in an arbitrary recording unit, includes a control unit that controls the operation of the data recording/reproducing device. The control unit designates a recording unit where data on the recordable area is not recorded as a non-use area, determines whether data has been recorded, or unrecorded in the recording unit on the recordable area, determines the recording unit designated as the non-use area to have been recorded, and records data in the recording unit determined to be unrecorded when data is recorded on the recording medium, under the control. | 09-25-2014 |
20140255008 | CONTENT-RECEIVING DEVICE - A content receiver comprises: an acceptance unit for accepting a designation of a recording medium to which contents are to be output; a license information acquiring unit for acquiring output license information describing the output requirements of the contents; and an output unit for outputting the contents to the designated recording medium. The output license information includes usage time limit information indicating the time limit of using the contents in an output destination. The output unit acquires the usage time limit information from the output license information for the contents, and sets the acquired usage time limit information to a management information storing area in the designated recording medium, thereby managing the time period of using the contents in the recording medium even if the copyright protection of the recording medium, which is an export destination, has a function to manage the time period of using the contents. | 09-11-2014 |
20140241140 | Optical Information Recording Apparatus, Optical Information Recording Method, Optical Information Reproducing Apparatus and Optical Information Reproducing Method - An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus and an optical information recording/reproducing method that record information using holography, wherein the optical information recording/reproducing apparatus includes a signal generation unit that generates two-dimensional data by a two-dimensional encoding method in which a lower-limit value of a number of continuous ON/OFF pixels in an array in one direction of pixels in a two-dimensional spatial light modulator is K(K≧2, K: natural number); and a pickup that records the two-dimensional data, generated by the signal generation unit, on a hologram disc. | 08-28-2014 |
20140232939 | TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND RELAY DEVICE - Provided is a system for supplying a power from a sink device to a source device. Not only the source device but also a cable or a repeater device to be connected thereto has compatibility in power supply. A physical address obtained from information of an EDID memory forms a base of CEC message exchange, but a physical address of the cable or repeater device is overlapped with the source device or unknown. The cable or a repeater device uses changes the type of a message while using the same physical address as the source device or use such a message having the physical address information of the source device is described in a parameter of the message using the unknown physical address. The message having a supply or reception current for each device described therein is exchanged with the sink device or the source device to adjust current reception. | 08-21-2014 |
20140232915 | ELECTRIC CAMERA - An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device. | 08-21-2014 |
20140212108 | VIDEO RECORDING METHOD AND VIDEO RECORDING DEVICE - A video recording device including: a format control section defining a video file record to produce a file via a format defined having a BDMV directory and at least directories to record the video signal and to record Play List data further arranged below the BDMV directory, and forms the format so one Play Item is produced in each of segments of video scenes to be acquired and a plurality of Play Items are arranged within one piece of the Play List data; and a recording control section recording the video information on the recording medium according to the format formed by the format control section, wherein when video acquired by the camera is recorded where a first piece of Play List data is produced, Items are produced within the first piece of the Play List data without generating a new piece of Play List data. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211601 | QUALITY EVALUATION METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING SYSTEM - When data is recorded on an optical disc, and stored for a long period of time, there is a need to periodically evaluate whether a quality of the recorded data is determined with time, or not. If the signal quality is lower than a given level as an evaluation result, a work for moving the data to a brand-new optical disc is required. However, in periodical inspection, if the number of optical discs is enormous, a large amount of time is required to evaluate all data recorded on the optical disc. In recording user data on the optical disc, a signal of a particular pattern having a lifetime shorter than a reference lifetime of the user data is recorded in a given area of the optical disc in advance, the particular pattern signal is reading at given time intervals, and processing on the user data is determined on the basis of the evaluation result of the signal quality. | 07-31-2014 |
20140205263 | VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR DEMULTIPLEXING RECEIVED COMPRESSED AND NON-COMPRESSED VIDEO SIGNALS AND TRANSMITTING DEMULTIPLEXED SIGNALS - The present invention is intended to permit both real-time display of a picture represented by a non-compressed video signal on a television and display of a picture represented by a compressed video signal at any desired time by simultaneously transmitting the compressed video signal and non-compressed video signal via one interface. An STB packetizes a compressed video signal, and multiplexes the compressed video signal and a blanking signal combined with a non-compressed video signal. Thus, both the video signals are transmitted simultaneously. A picture represented by the non-compressed video signal is displayed on a television in real time. The compressed video signal is stored in a storage medium incorporated in the television, read at any user's desired time, and decoded so that a picture represented by the compressed video signal can be viewed at the user's desired time. | 07-24-2014 |
20140185421 | OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD - A method of calculating a reliability effective in a decoding process of hologram. An optical information reproducing apparatus that reproduces information with the use of the holography includes an image acquisition unit that reproduces two-dimensional data from a hologram disc, an image equalization unit that makes the two-dimensional data equal to target data having a target PR characteristic, a soft output decoding unit that decodes output data of the image equalization unit on the basis of the PR characteristic, and outputs a decoded result having a reliability, and an error correction unit that conducts an error correction of the data on the basis of the decoded result. | 07-03-2014 |
20140168524 | OPERATION CONTROLLING APPARATUS - Operation controlling apparatus executing equipment operation controlling, including: an equipment management portion configured to manage control commands corresponding to plural number of control items; a video producing portion configured to produce videos corresponding to the plural number of control items; a video display portion configured to display video produced by the video producing portion laying on a control surface; a distance detector portion configured to detect distance from the video producing portion to the control surface; and a controller portion configured to control the video display portion, so that a size of the video to be displayed by the video display portion is within a size of the control surface, depending on the distance detected by the distance detector portion, and to make equipment of a control target execute the control command, which is managed by the equipment management portion, when execution of the control item is determined. | 06-19-2014 |
20140160913 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION DEVICE, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE, METHOD FOR RECORDING AND REPRODUCING OPTICAL INFORMATION AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention provides a technology which estimates the most suitable cure time which changes with the environment when recording a hologram and adjusts the cure time in real time, thereby enabling a suitable pre-cure or post-cure. When irradiating an optical information recording medium with cure light, the light transmitted from the optical information recording medium is detected by a detector and the irradiation time is adjusted by continuing irradiation until the intensity of the transmitted light detected exceeds a prescribed reference value. | 06-12-2014 |
20140152962 | PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH INCREASED LIFE OF OPTICAL CONSTITUENT COMPONENTS - A projection type display apparatus including a light source, a display element, an illumination optical system and a projection lens to project a magnified image of the optical image. The illumination optical system includes a first array lens and a second array lens, each includes a plurality of lens elements arranged in a matrix, each of the lens elements having a rectangular opening, and a polarization conversion element having polarization conversion function by use of a plurality of polarized beam splitters and a plurality of half-wave phase plates, arranged in an array and opposing to the lens elements of the second array lens, to emit predetermined polarized light. The light source includes a light emitting plane of a rectangle or an ellipse shape, a longitudinal direction of the light emitting plane being parallel to a longitudinal direction of each opening of the polarization conversion element. | 06-05-2014 |
20140146294 | OBLIQUE PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A projection type display apparatus including an oblique projection optical system having a plurality of lenses is disclosed. A lens nearest to a projection screen has a vertical effective image area through which a light flux passes. The lens is arranged at a position not including an optical axis shared by the largest number of lenses among the plurality of lenses. A flat mirror for returning the optical path is arranged between the particular lens and the projection screen at a predetermined angle to the optical axis. An enlarged image obtained by the light flux returned by the flat mirror is formed toward a display screen. | 05-29-2014 |
20140146293 | SOLID-STATE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE - A solid-state light source device, enabling to build up with using solid-state elements, and having the structure suitable to be applied as a light source for a projection-type display apparatus, comprises a solid-state light source unit | 05-29-2014 |
20140125621 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a touch panel which displays pieces of identification information including letters, figures, and symbols and detects a contact of the panel with a finger of a user or other object. When the touch panel detects the contact of the panel, a detection unit specifies identification information of one or more of the multiple pieces of identification information displayed on the touch panel, indicated by a position at which the contact in question occurred. The detection unit also detects an area of part of the panel where the contact occurred. A storage unit stores reference identification information and a reference area range. A control unit performs particular processing upon matching of the detected identification information with the stored reference identification information and the area of the contact detected by the detection unit falling within the stored reference area range. | 05-08-2014 |
20140098654 | DISK-SHAPED RECORDING MEDIUM AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE FOR DISK-SHAPED RECORDING MEDIUM - When recording layers were provided on both the front and back sides of an optical disk in order to increase the recording capacity, whether the reproducing surface of the optical disk taken out of the cartridge was the front side or the back side could not be determined. This problem can be solved by adding to the BCA, in addition to disk identification information: type information indicating whether a recording surface is provided on one side or both sides; side information indicating whether the surface with which reproduction is being performed is side A or side B; recording layer quantity information indicating whether the disk has a single layer or a double layer; information indicating the areas other than the BCA and the directions in which data on the read-in, data zones, and read-out are recorded/reproduced; and information indicating the presence/absence of a disk cartridge. | 04-10-2014 |
20140092307 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus having an input unit for inputting an image signal and an image corrector for correcting the input image signal is disclosed. The image corrector is arranged to extract from the input image signal a specular reflection component and a diffuse reflection component and generate a corrected image signal based on a computation result with respect to these specular and diffuse reflection components thus extracted. This image corrector is adaptable for use in various types of image processors, including projectors, display devices and imaging devices. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092290 | IMAGING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SWITCHING DISPLAY METHODS - An imaging apparatus comprises an image pickup unit, a cutout image generation unit for cutting out a specified area in a pickup image taken by the image pickup unit to generate a cutout image enlarged at a specified magnification, an image display unit for displaying one or both of the pickup image taken by the image pickup unit and the cutout image generated by the cutout image generation unit, a display image control unit for controlling a method of displaying an image the image display unit displays, a manual focus operation unit for the user to control through manual operation the focus position of the image pickup unit, and a manual zoom operation unit for the user to control the zoom magnification of the image pickup unit. | 04-03-2014 |
20140085481 | RADIATION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND RADIATION MEASUREMENT METHOD - A radiation measurement apparatus includes: a radiation detector which detects incoming radiations; a measurement processor which measures a distribution of a radiation source in an object on the basis of detection signals inputted from the radiation detector; an optical camera which takes an optical image of an object existing in the field of view; a controller which generates synthesized images by superimposing the distribution of the one or more radiation sources and the optical image; a rotation unit which changes the objective field of radiation measurement by automatic or manual rotation; and a controller which causes a display unit to display the multiple synthesized images in association with rotation angles in the automatic or manual rotation. | 03-27-2014 |
20140078875 | OPTICAL DISK DEVICE - There is a problem that when the relative angle between laser light and an optical disc is changed by temperature, or a chucking state of an optical disc and so forth, the formerly recorded data is overwritten. The above-mentioned problem is solved by performing focus control and tracking control independently with respect to a servo layer and a recording layer in a grooveless disc. | 03-20-2014 |
20140071799 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD - In an optical information recording device and optical information recording method for angularly multiplexing and recording data on pages on the same recording region on a hologram disk, data on each page is sequentially generated by sequentially dividing input data in predetermined units, the pages to be recorded on the same recording region are divided into page groups so that pages to be recorded adjacently by the angular multiplexing may not belong to the same group, each page group is individually subjected to inter-page coding processing for computing an error-correcting code and adding the computed error-correcting code, and data on the pages subjected to the inter-page coding processing is angularly multiplexed and recorded on the hologram disk. | 03-13-2014 |
20140071798 | MULTILAYER INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PLAYBACK METHOD AND INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD EMPLOYING SAME - The purpose of the present invention is to minimize increase in the number of types of medium control information, and increase in time required for OPC, in association with a greater number of recording layers in a multilayer optical information recording medium. Provided is a multilayer optical information recording medium having two or more recording layers, the multilayer optical information recording medium characterized in that the recording layers are classified into layer groups that are fewer in number than the number of recording layers, each of the layer groups so classified being assigned medium control information that is shared within the layer group, and the medium control information assigned to each layer group being pre-registered in an administrative domain. | 03-13-2014 |
20140064049 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE - An optical information recording/reproduction device includes a detection unit which detects a focus-direction height of a recording medium, a focus adjustment unit which adjusts a focus-direction distance between the recording medium and a signal light optical system and a reference light system, and a control unit which controls the focus adjustment unit so that a relative distance between the object lens of the signal light optical system and the recording medium is adjusted according to the focus-direction height of the recording medium detected by the detection unit. | 03-06-2014 |
20140055757 | PROJECTION APPARATUS AND TRANSPARENT SCREEN FOR IT - There is provided a projection apparatus using an oblique projection optical system, which generates little reflection loss by providing a linear Fresnel lens at an incident surface in the case where the apparatus is used as a linear system, wherein said linear Fresnel lens makes total reflection of image light, and is capable of obtaining total surface property with good brightness in a region with small incident angle onto a screen, by using a total reflection Fresnel lens and a refraction Fresnel lens in combination. In addition, total surface property with further good brightness can be obtained by using a plurality of projection image display apparatuses in the same projection apparatus. | 02-27-2014 |
20140047068 | VIDEO INFORMATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - Video information, which is photographed with using a GPS built-in video camera, is inputted into a video information server. A video information correspondence table is produced, which associated photographing time of the video information inputted, data address of the video information photographed, and photographing position, and is memorized. According to a request from a display apparatus, the memorized video information correspondence table is searched, and thereby obtaining the video information having the information of time and position designated. | 02-13-2014 |
20140036652 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION DEVICE - In the land-groove method, wobble interference is reduced. STW modulation is used as wobble modulation for a part where wobble interference can occur, for example, a part where the configurations of both side walls of the groove are not the same and groove width modulation is unavoidable. Thereby, the amplitude of the groove width modulation can be suppressed to a quarter of that when BPSK modulation is used. | 02-06-2014 |
20140029405 | OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - In the optical information reproduction apparatus using Homodyne phase diversity detection, the S/N ratio of a reproduced signal is deteriorated due to the influence of a quantization noise generated in an A/D converter for digitalizing a differential signal. The optical information reproduction apparatus is arranged to have the A/D converter for digitalizing the differential signal having a vertical resolution equal to or higher than 9 bits. | 01-30-2014 |
20140029404 | HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING INCIDENT ANGLE OF REFERENCE BEAM - A holographic memory apparatus includes an optical detector which receives reflected light of reference beam from the surface of a hologram recording medium. An incident angle of the reference beam is estimated on the basis of information on a focused position on the optical detector. When the incident angle is different from a target incident angle, the incident angle of the reference beam is adjusted according to a difference between the incident angle and the target incident angle. | 01-30-2014 |
20140022881 | INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MEDIUM ESTIMATING METHOD - A recording waveform is adjusted based on the fluctuation amount of the mark edge position, focused on that fluctuation of a mark edge position is increased in aged deterioration of a recording signal. Specifically, the recording waveform is adjusted such that a fluctuation amount becomes minimum or a threshold value or less. Then, information is recorded on the optical disc using the recording waveform. Further, provided is a recording medium or an information recording apparatus which stores parameters of the recording waveform. | 01-23-2014 |
20140022224 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PLAZMA DISPLAY PANEL - A method is provided for driving a plasma display panel having parallel first and second electrodes, third electrodes crossing the first and second electrodes, and discharge cells with electrodes crossing mutually in the form of a matrix. The method includes a reset period during which distribution of wall charges in the discharge cells is uniformed, an addressing period during which wall charges are produced in the discharge cells according to display data, and a sustain discharge period during which sustain discharge is induced in discharge cells in which wall charges are produced during the addressing period. The driving method includes during the reset period, in lines defined by the first and second electrodes, applying a first pulse, in which an applied voltage varies with time to induce first discharge, and applying a second pulse in which an applied voltage varies with time to induce second discharge as an erase discharge. | 01-23-2014 |
20140020032 | PORTABLE TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTENT DISPLAY SYSTEM AND CONTENT DISPLAY METHOD - A portable terminal includes a receiving unit which receives content information, an external device communication unit which conducts communication with an external information device, a display unit which displays the content information received by the receiving unit, an acquiring unit which acquires identification information identifying the content information displayed by the display unit, an operation unit which receives an operation indication from a user, and a control unit which conducts control such that if a transmission indication of the identification information is received by the operation unit while the content information is being displayed, the identification information acquired by the acquiring unit is transmitted to the external information device and the display of the content information by the display unit is terminated. | 01-16-2014 |
20140016909 | DIGITAL CONTENT RECEIVING APPARATUS, DIGITAL CONTENT RECEIVING METHOD AND DIGITAL CONTENT RECEIVING/TRANSMITTING METHOD - A recording/reproducing apparatus, for recording/reproducing video content comprises a recording/reproducing portion, which is configured to record the video content into a recording medium, and to reproduce the video content recorded in the recording medium, wherein determination is made if video content to be reproduced at high-speed includes video content or not, which can be displayed in 3D, when reproducing the video content recorded in the recording medium at the high-speed, and upon basis of that determination, a method of high-speed reproduction is changed. | 01-16-2014 |
20140015874 | Optical Unit - An optical unit includes a light source that emits light to be projected onto a screen, one or a plurality of optical elements that controls a spread of a beam of light from the light source to the screen, a combining element that combines the light emitted from the light source, and a scanning element. The light source outputs an optical beam that will generate an elliptically shaped beam spot on the screen, the beam spot having a major axis substantially perpendicular to a scanning direction, and the light source is driven with pulse width modulation (PWM) so that one driven pulse corresponds to one beam spot on the screen. | 01-16-2014 |
20140006857 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD, AND DATA LIBRARY APPARATUS | 01-02-2014 |
20140003221 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD AND DEVICE | 01-02-2014 |
20130343171 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is disclosed an optical information recording/reproducing apparatus for optically recording and/or reproducing information in and from an optical recording medium. The apparatus has an oscillator light generator for generating oscillator light that is made to overlap and interfere with reproduced light from the optical recording medium, an oscillator light modulator for producing a given phase difference between the oscillator light and the reproduced light, a light detector for detecting interference light in which the oscillator light and the reproduced light overlap each other, a wavefront deviation detector for detecting an amount of wavefront deviation between the oscillator light and the reproduced light from an output from the light detector, and a compensation amount calculation unit for calculating a wavefront compensation amount from the amount of wavefront deviation. The phase difference produced by the oscillator light modulator is controlled based on the wavefront compensation amount. | 12-26-2013 |
20130341508 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROJECTOR - A three-dimensional image projector, including a transparent display medium within which fluorescent substances are dispersed, the fluorescent substances being dispersed for performing the fluorescent light-emission of visible light by the irradiation with a laser beam of invisible light, a first-laser-beam scanning unit for scanning the inside of the transparent display medium by deflecting a first laser beam, the first laser beam being used for exciting the fluorescent substances, and a second-laser-beam scanning unit for scanning the inside of the transparent display medium by deflecting a second laser beam, the second laser beam being used for exciting the fluorescent substances, wherein a stereoscopic image is formed at a scanning intersection point of the first laser beam and the second laser beam inside the transparent display medium. | 12-26-2013 |
20130316644 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - There is provided a mobile terminal capable of being protected against unauthorized use by a third party without using a dedicated key device. A plurality of mobile terminals are previously registered mutually. When unlocked among them, one mobile terminal communicates with another mobile terminal in a communication range of short-range wireless communications, unlocks the above another mobile terminal, and when out of the communication range, locks it again. | 11-28-2013 |
20130312044 | NETWORK TERMINAL SYSTEM AND WIRELESS TERMINAL - A network terminal system connects a wireless terminal and a display device with a network. The wireless terminal obtains contents, an identifier that contains information indicating a server for supplying the contents and information for identifying the contents, and session information for uniquely identifying a user of the wireless terminal, from an external network. The obtained identifier and the session information are transmitted to the display device. The display device obtains the contents and the session information correlated with the contents from the server indicated by the identifier transmitted from the wireless terminal, and displays the obtained contents on the display unit. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311619 | Content Delivery System, Delivery Server, Receiving Terminal, and Content Delivery Method - A transmitting terminal can transmit a content held by itself to a specific receiving terminal having no email software as if using a mailer. The transmitting terminal ( | 11-21-2013 |
20130290810 | DATA ARCHIVE SYSTEM, DATA RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND DATA LIBRARY APPARATUS - In a data recording and reproducing apparatus that includes a host computer and a drive in order to improve data reliability, in data recording, the host computer appends a first error correction code to the data and the drive appends a second error correction code to the data. When a failure has occurred in error correction performed by the drive using the second error correction code, the drive reads out the first error correction code and performs error correction using the first error correction code. Since error correction using the first error correction is possible even when error correction using the second error correction code ends in failure, the reliability of data is improved. | 10-31-2013 |
20130289871 | POSITIONAL INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, NAVIGATION SYSTEM, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - A positional information providing system is provided in which positional information including altitude can be highly accurately acquired even though a user is located outdoors or indoors. A system includes a server device including a map data storage unit, an altitude storage unit, a reference position coordinates receiving unit, a reference point altitude information generating unit locating reference position coordinates and reference point altitude, a map data transmitting unit and a reference point altitude information transmitting unit, and a terminal device including a positional information acquiring unit, a reference point information transmitting unit, a reference point altitude information receiving unit, a map data receiving unit and a reference point altitude detecting unit detecting altitude at a reference point. The terminal device includes a calibration unit for the altitude data acquired at the reference point altitude detecting unit and a map display unit displaying map data and altitude data. | 10-31-2013 |
20130287122 | VIDEO TRANSMISSION DEVICE, VIDEO TRANSMISSION METHOD, VIDEO RECEIVING DEVICE, AND VIDEO RECEIVING METHOD - A video transmission device comprising: a reference signal generation unit which generates a reference signal based on time information; an imaging unit which images a video signal based on the reference signal generated by means of the reference signal generation unit; a compression unit which performs digital compression encoding of the video signal imaged by means of the imaging unit; a network processing unit which receives, from a network, time information and phase information about a reference signal in regard to the time information and, also, transmits the digital compression encoded video signal; and a control unit which controls the reference signal generation unit and the network processing unit. Here, the control unit modifies the phase of the reference signal generated with the reference signal generation unit in response to the time information and the phase signal received with the network processing unit. | 10-31-2013 |
20130278866 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A plurality of backlight blocks are configured by being juxtaposed in the plane direction of an illumination device and include a bidirectional backlight block. Light sources are formed on both lateral sides of the bidirectional backlight block in the direction of the axes of emission of the light sources, the light sources formed on one lateral side are arranged so that light is emitted in the direction toward the light sources formed on the other lateral side, the light sources formed on the other lateral side are arranged so that light is emitted in the direction toward the light sources formed on the one lateral side, and the bidirectional backlight block is arranged in the center part of the illumination device in the direction of the axes of emission of the light sources. | 10-24-2013 |
20130275394 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Deduplication is executed in a storage device having low random access performance, such as an optical disk library. When an optical disk that is not inserted into an optical disk drive needs to be accessed in order to execute binary compare, data to be binary compared is stored in a temporary memory area in order to postpone the binary compare, and on the timing when the optical disk is inserted, the postponed binary compare is executed. Before second deduplication, which is deduplication between data to be stored in the storage device and the data in the optical disk library, is executed, first deduplication, which is deduplication between the data to be stored in the storage device and the data in the temporary memory area, is executed. | 10-17-2013 |
20130266287 | REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND REPRODUCTION METHOD - When a reproduction device and a display device are separated, there is the risk that it will not be possible to appropriately overly menu images or the like on a 3D video signal in the reproduction device. This reproduction method, which outputs a video signal generated in a reproduction device to a display device, has: a step for reproducing a video signal; a step for generating image information to be superimposed on the reproduced video signal; a step for superimposing the generated image information on the reproduced video signal; a step for outputting the video signal to which the image information has been superimposed; a step for reading information relating to the display device from the display device; and a step for acquiring information relating to the state of the display device from the display device. The configuration is such that the method of superimposing the image information on the video signal is altered on the basis of the acquired information relating to the state of the display device and the read information relating to the display device. | 10-10-2013 |
20130258827 | OPTICAL DISK, FORMAT PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE SAME, RECORDING METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE - An optical disk that enables a laser beam to be focused on an object track without making mistakes, an optical disk device, a format processing method, and a recording method. The optical disk shall be configured to has a guiding layer with a physical groove structure containing address information and a single or multiple recording layers with no groove structure, in which the guide areas for recording the address information thereon are formed along a track of the guide layer at fixed intervals in a user data area of each recording layer. An address for the recording layer is generated based on information obtained from the guide layer, and the address for the recording layer is recorded in the guide area. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258826 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING SYSTEM AND SERVER - A reproducing process of related data is efficiently performed also in a recording medium having recording surfaces at both of front and rear surfaces in a recording and reproducing system including a plurality of recording media. | 10-03-2013 |
20130249030 | RADIOACTIVE RAY DETECTOR AND RADIOACTIVE RAY DETECTING APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to provide a radioactive ray detector for enabling to reduce the parasitic capacity lower than that of the conventional art, which is generated between the semiconductor elements of the radioactive ray detectors neighboring with, and a radioactive ray detecting apparatus applying that therein. The radioactive ray detector, comprises a substrate, a first semiconductor element and a second semiconductor element, which are provided to face to each other with positioning the substrate therebetween, a first electrode pattern, which is electrically connected with the first semiconductor element on a surface facing to an opposite side of the substrate, and a second electrode pattern, which is electrically connected with the second semiconductor element on a surface facing to an opposite side of the substrate, wherein the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern are arranged not to overlap with each other, when seeing through the substrate in a direction of thickness thereof. | 09-26-2013 |
20130248726 | RADIOACTIVE RAY DETECTOR CARD - A radioactive ray detector card comprises semiconductor elements on a substrate, each having a plurality of first electrodes, provided on one of main surfaces thereof, and a second electrode, provided on other of main surfaces thereof; the substrate having first electrode wirings electrically connected with the plurality of first electrodes, and card edge portions, which transmit signals from the plurality of semiconductor elements to an external electric circuit; the second electrode corresponding to a second electrode identifier, for identifying the semiconductor elements; the first electrodes corresponding to first electrode identifiers, for identifying the plurality of first electrodes, respectively; and the first electrode wirings electrically connect between the first electrodes, corresponding to one of the first electrode identifiers on one semiconductor element of the plurality of semiconductor elements, and the first electrodes, corresponding to one of the same first electrode identifiers on the other semiconductor element. | 09-26-2013 |
20130242714 | Method for Adjusting Recording Condition, Optical Disc Device, and Information Recording Method - A recording adjustment method capable of controlling an edge position of a mark with high accuracy. Based on an acquired read-out signal waveform, a starting position of a last pulse is adjusted such that a so-called L-SEAT shift value for an end edge of the mark becomes minimum. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242391 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - In a first face and a second face of an irregular configuration portion configuring a wire grid structure, surface roughness of the first face farther from an input side of a light (electromagnetic wave) is made rougher than the surface roughness of the second face closer to the input side of the light (electromagnetic wave). With this configuration, according to this embodiment, since a reflection polarization element can be realized, there can be provided an optical device that is excellent in tolerance to heat and light, and contributes to a reduction in the costs. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242232 | PROJECTION-TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection-type display apparatus, being suitable to be applied as a light source of a solid-state light source, in the place of a conventional lamp, comprises : a light source unit, which is configured to emit a white-color light therefrom; a light separation optic system, which is configured to separate the white color light from the light source unit into three primary color lights, red-color (R), green-color (G) and blue-color (B); R, G and B light modulating portions, each of which modulates each of R, G and B polarized lights separated, depending on a video signal, respectively; a light composing unit, which is configured to compose optical images, which are formed by the R, G and B light modulating portions; and a projecting portion, which is configure to project the optical image composed, enlargedly, wherein the light source unit emits a white color light emitting from a nearly point-like light source, including an excitation light from a solid-state light emitting element therein. | 09-19-2013 |
20130241016 | RADIOACTIVE RAY DETECTING APPARATUS - A radioactive ray detecting apparatus for enabling to reduce the dead area or region where the radioactive rays cannot be detected, even if disposing the radioactive ray detectors to be dense or crowded, is provided. The radioactive ray detecting apparatus satisfies the following relationships, when assuming that distance between semiconductor elements, being provided with putting a substrate therebetween, is “XG1”, while distance from the semiconductor element of one of the radioactive ray detectors up to the semiconductor element of other radioactive ray detectors, facing to the semiconductor element and neighboring with one radioactive ray detector, is “XG2”, and distance between the semiconductor elements alighted in a Y-direction is “YG1”, and further assuming that a horizontal pitch of a predetermined pixel pitch to be used as the radioactive ray detector is “a” and a vertical pitch thereof is “b”, width of a surface of each of plural numbers of semiconductor elements, upon which radioactive rays are incident, is “c” and length thereof is “d”, and among plural numbers of intra-element pixel regions of respective one of the plural numbers of semiconductor elements, and that length of the intra-element pixel regions, which are positioned at both end portions of respective one of the plural numbers of semiconductor elements, is “e”, and length of each one of the plural numbers of intra-element pixel regions, being put between the intra-element pixel regions, which are positioned at both end portions of each of the plural numbers of semiconductor elements, is “f”, respectively: | 09-19-2013 |
20130235711 | WRITE POWER ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD - In write power adjustment for an optical disc having a plurality of information storage layers, data of trial writing is varied by the influence of layers other than a target layer. It is difficult, therefore, to determine optimal write power. A modulation M[m] is obtained from a reproduction signal amplitude of a signal subjected to the trial writing performed with use of write powers Pw[m] (m being an integer) of a plurality of kinds. At least an optimum write power intercept Pint_opt is determined by fitting a relation between the Pw[m] and the M[m] by a modulation characteristic formula M=Masy×(1−(Pint−Pasy)/(Pw−Pasy)) having an asymptotic modulation Masy, a write power intercept Pint, and an asymptotic write power Pasy as parameters. Approximation accuracy by the fitting and/or quality of the trial writing signal are evaluated with use of at least the M[m], the modulation characteristic formula, and the Pint_opt. An optimum write power Pw_opt is calculated by performing a specified operation at least with use of the Pint_opt. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235355 | PROJECTION IMAGE DISPLAYING DEVICE - In a projection image displaying device which projects imaging light emitted from a projection lens | 09-12-2013 |
20130229899 | MEDIA RECORD/PLAY DEVICE AND MEDIA RECORD/PLAY METHOD - In the case where a spare area management method using an NAP of a spare area on a recordable medium is applied to a spare area management method of a spare area on a rewritable medium, in order to alleviate a recording stop caused by retry over in a replacement process or unnecessary conversion processes in a record/reproduce device, the NAP is updated in a format process or in the replacement process in such a way as to avoid defective blocks within the spare area which is registered as Unusable Cluster or Usable Cluster Type 2 entries on the DFL. | 09-05-2013 |
20130229636 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - According to the present invention, a projection type image display apparatus enables control of a large amount of light masking through a light-masking unit while maintaining a uniform illumination distribution in an area to be illuminated by the illumination light. The apparatus uses two array lenses on which lens cells are arranged in matrix form, where light-masking unit masks the array lens installed on the light source side in their particular area. The light-masking unit adjusts the amount of light emitted from the light source. The light-masking area of lens cells adjacent to lens cells closest to an optical axis is made smaller than the light-masking area of other cells. | 09-05-2013 |
20130229633 | OBLIQUE PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A projection type display apparatus including an oblique projection optical system having a plurality of lenses is disclosed. A lens nearest to a projection screen has a vertical effective image area through which a light flux passes. The lens is arranged at a position not including an optical axis shared by the largest number of lenses among the plurality of lenses. A flat mirror for returning the optical path is arranged between the particular lens and the projection screen at a predetermined angle to the optical axis. An enlarged image obtained by the light flux returned by the flat mirror is formed toward a display screen. | 09-05-2013 |
20130227629 | SYSTEM, VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTENT SERVER, AND INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE - A content server includes a stored search keyword information receiver for receiving stored search keyword information transmitted from a video display apparatus or a information terminal device, a content extractor for extracting a content to be recommended, from a content group stored in the content server on the basis of the received stored search keyword information, and a recommended content information transmitter for transmitting information on the extracted content to be recommended to the video display apparatus. The video display apparatus includes a recommended content information receiver for receiving the information on the content to be recommended, and a display unit capable of displaying the information on the content to be recommended. The information terminal device includes a keyword information storage unit capable of storing the stored search keyword information required to extract the content to be recommended. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227217 | ARCHIVE SYSTEM AND PROCESSING METHOD - In a RAID group using a plurality of recording media readable and writable on both sides, a data configuration such that data on front sides of other disks may be held on back sides of respective double-sided disks is formed and managed, and data for restoration is created from readout data of other data disks than that with failure. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226996 | NETWORK TERMINAL SYSTEM AND TERMINAL DEVICE - The display device has display means for displaying textual information, first text input means for entering a text string into a text input field of the display means where characters entered, and first send-receive means for sending/receiving information about the text string entered by the first text input means to/from a network. The terminal device has second send-receive means for sending/receiving the text string information sent by the first send-receive means of the display device to/from the network and second text input means for displaying the text string information received by the second send-receive means and entering a text string. The text string information is sent to the network from the second send-receive means. The display device receives text string information from the network via the first send-receive means. The received text string information is used to generate a text string that is entered by the first text input means. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223197 | LIBRARY APPARATUS - In a library apparatus, it is not considered that eliminated is an operation for reversing a direction of a double-sided readable/writable recording medium. In the library apparatus having a function of transporting and loading a recording medium from a recording medium storage unit to a recording and reproducing unit through a recording medium transportation unit, a direction in which an unrecorded recording medium is first loaded in the recording and reproducing unit is afterward treated as a front surface, and a direction opposite to the above direction is treated as a rear surface. | 08-29-2013 |
20130202160 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, RECOGNITION CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND RECOGNITION CONTROL PROGRAM - An information processing terminal capable of imposing restrictions on a predetermined function includes an image input unit capable of inputting a facial image of a recognition object person, a facial image storage unit for storing a facial image of a recognition registrant, a concordance rate detection unit for detecting a concordance rate between the facial image of the recognition object person and the facial image of the recognition registrant, a restriction cancel unit for canceling the restrictions on the predetermined function on the basis of the concordance rate detected by the concordance rate detection unit, a display unit capable of displaying information, and a display control unit for controlling to display information concerning the concordance rate on the display unit concurrently with the facial image of the recognition object person. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201813 | RECORDABLE OPTICAL DISC, RECORDING DEVICE, AND RECORDING METHOD - The present invention is to realize a proper inner zone layout in a quadruple-layer disk. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201809 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING SYSTEM AND SERVER - If a fault, or deterioration in read-out quality, is detected during recording processing with respect to a first recording face, a duplication is made, with respect to the recorded data on the second recording face of the same recording medium, on a separate recording medium. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201808 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD AND OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD - An optical-information reproducing apparatus for reproducing information from an optical-information storage medium where an interference pattern between a signal beam and a reference beam is recorded as page data by being angle-multiplexed, the optical-information reproducing apparatus, including a light-source for emitting a light beam, an optical element for splitting the light beam into the reference beam and the signal beam, an angle-controlling element for controlling the reference beam into a direction which is perpendicular to the angle-multiplexed direction, the reference beam being guided to enter the optical-information storage medium, an optical detector for detecting a reproduced image which is reproduced by the reference beam, and a position-controlling circuit for controlling position relationship between the reference beam and the optical-information storage medium. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201459 | LASER PROJECTOR - A laser projector includes a laser light source to emit laser light modulated in accordance with image information, a scanner to drive the laser light along two axes in horizontal and vertical directions and make scanning two-dimensionally with the laser light, a scanning mirror drive part to produce a drive signal of the scanner, a light source data conversion part to change arrangement in a horizontal direction of data applied to the laser light source and a timing generation part to synchronize the scanning mirror drive part with the light source data conversion part, and a start direction of laser scanning in the horizontal direction is changed every frame of the image information. | 08-08-2013 |
20130196629 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE AND DATA SENDING/RECEIVING SYSTEM - A mobile terminal device includes a wireless communication unit that wirelessly communicates with another mobile terminal device different from the mobile terminal device; a fingerprint detection unit that reads a user's fingerprint; and a control unit wherein the control unit performs control to create communication information, send the communication information to the another mobile terminal device, detect first fingerprint information on the user by the fingerprint detection unit, receive second fingerprint information on the user, which is detected by the another mobile terminal device, from the another mobile terminal device that received the communication information, and send information to the another mobile terminal device via the wireless communication unit if the first fingerprint information and the second fingerprint information match. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194174 | INPUT UNIT - There is provided an input unit adapted for non-contact input manipulation, which permits a user to smoothly accomplish an intended input manipulation. The input unit includes: a position detecting portion for detecting a position of a manipulating object such as a user's hand manipulating the input unit; a position change detecting portion for detecting a change in the position of a point on the manipulating object based on a detection output from the position detecting portion, the point being the closest to the position detecting portion; and an image display section. The position change detecting portion detects the change in the position of the point closest to the position detecting portion in a predetermined area. The image display section changes the display image according to a detection output from the position change detecting portion. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194127 | VEHICLE COLLISION RISK PREDICTION APPARATUS - A vehicle risk prediction apparatus includes: a first imaging unit that detects an electromagnetic wave of a wavelength ranging from a millimeter wave to a submillimeter wave to output a first image; a first detection unit that processes the first image output from the first imaging unit to detect a given object; and a risk prediction unit that outputs a detection result of the given object detected by the first detection unit. The first imaging unit includes: a transmit antenna unit that radiates the electromagnetic wave of the wavelength ranging from the millimeter wave to the submillimeter wave; a receive antenna array unit that has a plurality of receive antenna units arranged two-dimensionally, and receives a reflected wave of the electromagnetic wave radiated by the transmit antenna unit from the given object; and a signal processing unit that measures a time from radiation of the electromagnetic wave by the transmit antenna unit to reception of the reflected wave by the receive antenna array unit according to the number of read frames by the receive antenna array, and calculates both or any one of a distance from the subject vehicle to the given object, and a relative speed between the subject vehicle and the given object. | 08-01-2013 |
20130185752 | Wireless Terminal, System and Information Processing Method - A recording apparatus comprises a broadcasting-wave receiving device which receives broadcasting waves containing identification information for specifying program and video and audio information of program, a program reservation device which prepares, when setting of a program contained in broadcasting waves is received, reservation information containing identification information of program of which setting is received and information concerning setting, a wireless terminal, a communication device of the wireless terminal which transmits and receives reservation information and a recording device which records video and audio information of program identified by identification information contained in reservation information on the basis of information concerning setting. | 07-18-2013 |
20130169671 | PROJECTOR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE DISPLAY OF THE SAME - A projector in which an additional writing image is synthesized with a projection image and the synthesized image is projected and displayed includes: a display memory storing trapezoidal distortion corrected projection image information; a pen drawing control part forming an additional writing image by straight line drawing based on display position information of an inputted additional writing image and corrects trapezoidal distortion; and an OSD memory storing additional writing image information generated in the pen drawing control part and having corrected trapezoidal distortion, in which image information in the display memory and image information in the OSD memory are synthesized and displayed. Recording of projection image information into an external storage device includes setting an output image to BLANK; storing a projection image without correcting trapezoidal distortion into the display memory; and synthesizing the contents of the display memory and the additional writing image to into the external storage device. | 07-04-2013 |
20130160041 | SYSTEM, DIGITAL BROADCASTING RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS - A technique capable of performing a more preferable program recommendation is provided. In a system including a digital broadcasting receiving apparatus and an information terminal apparatus, information regarding viewing programs of the digital broadcasting receiving apparatus is recorded into the information terminal apparatus. On the basis of the information regarding the recorded viewing programs, in the digital broadcasting receiving apparatus or the information terminal apparatus, information of programs to be recommended to the user is selected from program information of programs which are scheduled to be broadcasted in future and is displayed. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155824 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC RECORDING METHOD - On the occasion of providing a guard track and additionally recording data in an optical disc provided with a guide layer having a physical groove structure for carrying out tracking servo control and not having a land/groove structure in recording layers carrying out recording and playback, it has sometimes occurred that it was difficult to reposition a light spot. Given that there are a recorded area and an unrecorded area in a recording layer, recording with respect to the concerned recording layer is taken to be impossible to implement when the recording capacity of the unrecorded area is less than a prescribed value. | 06-20-2013 |
20130145454 | PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL, ITS CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - Disclosed are a portable information terminal for materializing limitation of its use more effectively and method and program for controlling the terminal The portable information terminal comprises a mail address storing unit for storing mail addresses, a mail reception unit for receiving mails, a certification information generation unit for generating certification information and a terminal lock controlling unit for limiting a predetermined function or operation, wherein when a mail address of an originator of transmission of a mail received by the mail reception unit coincides with an address stored in the mail address storing unit, the predetermined function or operation is limited by certification information the certification information generating unit generates. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144759 | PRODUCT PURCHASE DEVICE AND PRODUCT PURCHASE METHOD - It is possible to prevent the erroneous purchase of products with similar appearance characteristics and descriptive information. In the present invention, similar products for which the product-related image information and text information is very similar are defined and the possibility of erroneous purchase is reported to the user at the time of product selection. | 06-06-2013 |
20130139189 | DISK DRIVE DEVICE - A disk drive device that can prevent warping deformation in upward and downward directions of a disk tray and can prevent vibration in a warping deformation mode without producing a rattle vibration is provided. A disk drive device has a casing and a disk tray on which the spindle motor and the pickup are mounted; and a pair of parallel first and second guide mechanisms that slidably supports the disk tray so as to eject the disk tray from the casing to the outside. In the disk drive device, in a center part in a width direction along the disk mount surface of an introduction side distal end part of the disk tray, an introduction side abutment part having a groove section or a protruding portion is formed, and an inner part abutment part formed on an elastic member is installed on an inner side inner wall part. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135976 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND RECORDING METHOD - To carry out a track control by compensating for an offset caused by a radial tilt when a track control of a main beam is carried out by detecting tracking information provided at a reference layer of a spatial recording medium by a guide beam, there are formed a first mark pair row aligned with the first mark pairs in a radius direction by a track pitch, and other mark pair row aligned with the second mark pairs in the radius direction by the track pitch. The other mark pair row is arranged in the radius direction by being shifted from the first mark pair row by a prescribed distance. The track control is made to be able to carry out by dispensing with an uncontrollable region by selecting one of plural track error signals generated from the plural mark pairs. | 05-30-2013 |
20130128714 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD - The above-described problem can be solved by the following optical-information reproducing apparatus: An optical-information reproducing apparatus for reproducing a hologram storage medium into which an interference pattern is recorded as a hologram, the interference pattern being formed by causing a reference beam and a signal beam to interfere with each other, the optical-information reproducing apparatus, including an optical detector for detecting a reproduced beam, the reproduced beam being acquired by illuminating the recorded hologram with the reference beam, an optical element for generating a first reference beam and a second reference beam by branching the reference beam, a wavefront detector for detecting wavefront aberration of the reference beam by causing the first reference beam and the second reference beam to interfere with each other, and a wavefront compensator for compensating the wavefront of the reference beam, wherein the wavefront compensator is adjusted based on an output of the wavefront detector. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128327 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/ REPRODUCING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/ REPRODUCING METHOD, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - In an optical information recording/reproducing apparatus using holography, there are provided the optical information recording/reproducing apparatus, method thereof, and optical information recording medium which correct a zero point and variation of unit quantity of a reference beam angle between apparatus and perform recording or reproducing operation with high compatibility between apparatus. The optical information recording/reproducing apparatus detects a reference beam angle suitable to reproduce angle correction data recorded on the optical information recording medium and corrects a zero point and unit quantity of the reference beam angle at the time of recording or reproducing operation based on the detection angle information. | 05-23-2013 |
20130100786 | DATA LIBRARY APPARATUS - A data library apparatus capable of changing the mounting positions of disks on the basis of information recorded in the disks and the access histories of the disks. Disks expected to be accessed next are mounted in advance on data recording/reproducing devices, on slots nearer to the data recording/reproducing devices, or on a disk carrying device, etc. In addition, disks relevant to currently active disks are mounted on positions so that the optical disk carrying device can bring out the relevant disks at a time without being moved, and hereby the time necessary for disk access in the data library apparatus can be reduced. | 04-25-2013 |
20130091529 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLAY-BACK DEVICE - A display device includes a first interface, a second interface and a display circuit. The display device transmits a first connection confirmation signal to confirm connection, via the first interface to a playback device and receives a response signal in reply to the first connection confirmation signal, transmits a second connection confirmation signal to confirm connection, via the second interface to the playback device and receives a response signal in reply to the second connection confirmation signal, and makes a function to use the first and second interfaces between the display device and the playback device available if both response signals in reply to the first and second connection confirmation signals are received. | 04-11-2013 |
20130064059 | OPTICAL DISK LIBRARY DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE SELECTING METHOD - In an optical disk library device using a plurality of optical disk devices, before optical disk devices execute recording or reproduction of information to or from optical disks, self-monitoring information is acquired from an optical disk monitor, use preferential orders of the optical disk devices are evaluated on the basis of use frequency information or deterioration information included in the self-monitoring information and an optical disk device to be used for recording or reproduction of information is selected on the basis of the use preferential orders. | 03-14-2013 |
20130064058 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An optical disc apparatus includes a focus controller including a first digital filter, tracking controller including a second filter, focus actuator driver, tracking actuator driver, defect detector for detecting a defect on an optical disc, and a system controller for controlling the focus controller, the tracking controller and the defect detector. The system controller holds an input and output of at least one of either the focus controller or the tracking controller on the basis of the output of the defect detector, and sets an initial value in a delay memory of the digital filter of the controller held upon awake of the hold state. | 03-14-2013 |
20130052630 | LEARNING SUPPORT SYSTEM AND LEARNING SUPPORT METHOD - In order to provide questions suited to skill levels of a learner, it is provided a learning support system which consists of a computer including a processor and a memory, comprising: a question database; a question generator; an answer acquisition module; a scoring module and an achievement degree estimator. The achievement degree estimator compares a number of types of perturbation within the questions to which a correct answer has been given with a predetermined second threshold value. The question generator generates a word changed in accordance with the perturbation of a different type in a case where the number of types of perturbation within the questions to which the correct answer has been given is smaller than the predetermined second threshold value, and sets a question relating to the generated word as a candidate for the question. | 02-28-2013 |
20130051065 | ILLUMINATION UNIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An illumination unit includes an LED and a tabular light guide plate having a light emitting surface for emitting light from the LED as planar light, wherein a recessed portion is formed in the opposite surface of the tight emitting surface of the light guide plate, and wherein the LED is provided in the recessed portion so that the optical axis of the LED becomes parallel to the light emitting surface of the light guide plate. Further, a plurality of LEDs are arranged along the longer direction of the recessed portion, a dimming pattern is provided at a location corresponding to each of a plurality of LED of the light emitting surface of the light guide plate, and the shape or the size of the dimming pattern is varied with a location on the light emitting surface of the light guide plate. | 02-28-2013 |
20130044578 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, ADDRESS GENERATION AND DETECTION METHOD, AND REPRODUCING AND RECORDING APPARATUSES - In a recording medium, an extension address is obtained without changing the number of bits of the address embedded in the wobble. The wobble address is partially or wholly encoded to embed the address information. At the time of reproducing the address information, the original address information is obtained by restoring the embedded information by the decoding process. | 02-21-2013 |
20130031585 | PORTABLE TERMINAL, SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A video viewing/listening system, includes a broadcast receiving apparatus having a receiver portion for receiving a broadcast signal transmitted via a broadcast wave, and a wireless terminal having a communication I/F for transmitting/receiving information, via a wireless LAN router or directly, between the broadcast receiving apparatus, wherein said wireless terminal obtains program-related information about programs, which is broadcasted at present and will be broadcasted in future, via the broadcast wave, while said broadcast receiving apparatus transmits information of a processing condition or a processing schedule of the broadcast receiving apparatus for the program(s), which is/are broadcasted at present and will be broadcasted in future, via the broadcast wave, to the wireless terminal via the communication I/F, and wherein said wireless terminal produces a program table with using both, the program-related information, which is obtained from a distributor differing from the broadcast receiving apparatus, and also the information of the processing. | 01-31-2013 |
20130024045 | POWER CONTROL UNIT - A weather information database stores weather information acquired from a weather information provider. A power generation unit selection unit selects a power generation unit with a high generating efficiency from a plurality of power generation units having different power generation schemes, in accordance with the current weather condition. A power generation electric energy database stores the power generation electric energy of a power generation unit, while an electric energy consumption database stores the electric energy consumption of a plurality of electrical appliances. A power transmission destination selection unit selects an electrical appliance whose electric energy consumption is lower than the generated energy from the plurality of electrical appliances, when the past generated energy in the current time zone is lower than the past total electric power consumption, and transmits electric power thereto. | 01-24-2013 |
20130011114 | CONTENT DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTENT OUTPUT DEVICE, AND CONTENT DISPLAY METHOD - A content display device includes a content signal input unit that receives a content signal; a display unit that displays content included in the content signal, a sensor that detects a presence/absence of a viewer in a predetermined range; and a reproduction position storing unit that stores reproduction position information indicating a reproduction position of the content. When the sensor detects that a viewer leaves, and then returns to the predetermined range, the display unit returns to a reproduction position, indicated by the reproduction position information, and displays the content. | 01-10-2013 |
20120313432 | POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM CONNECTING APPARATUS - A power distribution system connecting apparatus comprises a power generation amount calculating portion for calculating a theoretical amount of power generation of the power source apparatus from an environment measurement value, a power measuring portion for measuring an amount of power generation of the power source apparatus, a comparator portion for comparing the calculation value of the power generation amount calculating portion and the measurement value of the power measuring portion, a memory portion for memorizing a result of comparison in the comparing portion, and a display portion for displaying a condition of the power source apparatus thereon; thereby providing the power distribution system connecting apparatus for enabling to deal with suppression of a reverse power flow, while preventing ill-influences due to troubles from being transferred to a system side. | 12-13-2012 |
20120311626 | DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS FOR CONTENT LIST AND CONTENT, AND TRANSMITTING METHOD - A distributing apparatus including a communication processor unit to execute transmission of data between a content receiving apparatus connected through a network; a content list producer unit to produce an optical disc content list for when loaded in the optical disc drive apparatus, while to produce a recording medium content list when the optical disc is not loaded; a content list transmitter unit; a content transmitter unit; an authenticator unit; a key producer unit, which is configured to produce key information necessary for encoding the content(s) to be transmitted by the content transmitter unit; and an encoder unit, which is configured to encode the content(s) with using the key information in the key producer unit. | 12-06-2012 |
20120301012 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - When super-resolution processing is applied to an entire screen image at the same intensity, a blur contained in an input image is uniformly reduced over the entire screen image. Therefore, the screen image may be seen differently from when it is naturally seen. As one of methods for addressing the problem, there is such a method that: when a first image for a left eye and a second image for a right eye are inputted, each of parameters concerning image-quality correction is determined based on a magnitude of a positional deviation between associated pixels in the first image and second image respectively; and the parameters are used to perform image-quality correction processing for adjusting a sense of depth of an image. | 11-29-2012 |
20120254906 | MOVIE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND MOVIE RECOMMENDATION METHOD - It is provided a movie recommendation system comprising a log holding unit a movie information input unit including a movie basic information input unit and a movie extended information input unit, and a recommendation calculation unit including a simple recommendation calculation unit and an extended recommendation calculation unit. The movie recommendation system compares the number of the operation logs held in the log holding unit and a predetermined value, calculates the recommendation movies by the simple recommendation calculation unit in a case where it is determined that a small number of operation logs are held in the log holding unit, and calculates the recommendation movies by the extended recommendation calculation unit in a case where it is determined that a large number of operation logs are held in the log holding unit. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250476 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE - The present invention relates to a recording/reproducing device that records data on a double-sided recordable optical disk for storage and management purposes. The device includes a unit which stores a plurality of optical disks, a unit which records data onto and reproduces data from an upper side of an optical disk, a unit which records data onto and reproduces data from a lower side of an optical disk, a unit which conveys an optical disk between the disk storage unit and each recording/reproducing unit. When a request for reading data recorded on the lower side of the disk is received while the upper side is being written onto, a control unit interrupts a data recording process on the upper side, reproduces data recorded on the lower side, and after completion of reproducing the recorded data, resumes the interrupted data recording process. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250474 | OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS - An optical disk apparatus which conducts overwriting of data on a rewritable optical disk or conducts write-once recording of data on a write-once optical disk includes a control unit for receiving a recording command which specifies a recording area and orders recording and receiving transfer data, and a collation unit for collating existing data on the optical disk with the transfer data. Upon reception of the recording command and the transfer data by the control unit, the existing data is collated with the transfer data by the collation unit, and overwrite recording of data in places where the transfer data is different from the existing data is conducted on the rewritable optical disk, or data in places where the transfer data is different from the existing data is recorded in an unrecorded area of the write-once optical disk. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249968 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - A light beam projected from a projector passes through a microlens and then is focused on an extremely small region (hereinafter, will be called a deflection point). After that, the light beam is diverged as a directional light beam from the region serving as the deflection point. Thus, a viewer of a stereoscopic display perceives light beams as extremely small pixels. In reality, the deflection points are largely spaced, so that a rough image is perceived by a viewer who observes a screen. An autostereoscopic display including a two-dimensional image display device and an optical element, the optical element having a structure that simultaneously diffuses and deflects light emitted from the two-dimensional image display device, so that a stereoscopic image is displayed. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249423 | Image Display Apparatus - A screen is provided on a housing in such a manner that the screen protrudes toward its nearer side, and is inclined so that the nearer side becomes lower. This screen displays thereon a first hierarchy menu for indicating an arrangement of genre pictures, a second hierarchy menu for indicating an arrangement of commodity pictures, and a map image for indicating a map of the sales counters. A user brings his or her hand tip nearer to this screen. This operation allows a double-ring pointer to be displayed at a position which corresponds to the spatial position or direction of the user's hand tip relative to the screen. On this screen, the user is permitted to change the position of this double-ring pointer by performing a gesture of changing the spatial position or direction of the user's hand tip. | 10-04-2012 |
20120243851 | CONTENT-RECEIVING DEVICE - A content receiver comprises: an acceptance unit for accepting a designation of a recording medium to which contents are to he output; a license information acquiring unit for acquiring output license information describing the output requirements of the contents; and an output unit for outputting the contents to the designated recording medium The output license information includes usage time limit information indicating the time limit of using the contents in an output destination. The output unit acquires the usage time limit information from the output license information for the contents, and sets the acquired usage time limit information to a management information storing area in the designated recording medium, thereby managing the time period of using the contents in the recording medium even if the copyright protection of the recording medium, which is an export destination, has a function to manage the time period of using the contents. | 09-27-2012 |
20120236695 | OPTICAL DISK DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - The optical disk device can stably control an aberration correction lens even when one end of a movable range of the aberration correction lens is set as a reference position. The optical disk device comprises an optical pickup unit including the aberration correction lens and a stepping motor for moving the aberration correction lens, wherein, when an optical disk is inserted into the optical disk device, the aberration correction lens is moved to the reference position within the movable range and near one end thereof, and wherein, when moving the aberration correction lens to the reference position, driving pulses are applied to the stepping motor to press the aberration correction lens against the one end of the movable range, and thereafter a predetermined number of pulses are applied to reversely rotate the stepping motor and to set a stop position where the aberration correction lens stops as the reference position. | 09-20-2012 |
20120230171 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - The operability of an optical disc device for reading or writing data from/to a disc having a data layer and a servo layer is improved by increasing the resistance to control disturbances. An optical disc device in accordance with the present invention includes an objective lens, a relay lens, a blue-violet laser detector, a red laser detector, an objective lens focus actuator, an objective lens tracking actuator, a relay lens actuator, a pair of focus error signal generating units, a pair of focus control signal generating units, a switching unit for selecting a focus control signal, a pair of tracking error signal generating units, a pair of tracking control signal generating units, a switching unit for selecting a tracking control signal, a focus error conversion unit and a tracking error conversion unit. | 09-13-2012 |
20120224465 | RECORDING REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND RECORDING REPRODUCING METHOD - If a recording error has occurred during RAW, then subsequent recording reproducing processing is omitted in a predetermined range, and all blocks omitted in the processing are handled as defective blocks, DFL-registered, and recorded in a replacement area. As a result, it becomes possible to hold down the number of times of recording processing accompanied by seek processing in the RAW processing, and transfer rate lowering can be solved. | 09-06-2012 |
20120198487 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - It is provided a content recommendation system comprising a unit of storing the related information of the content; a history with respect to the content; determination information indicating whether to validate processing of extracting the recommendation content, which uses the each piece of the related information; and an effective period from a last use date, in which the determination information indicates “valid”; a unit of extracting the last use date of the each piece of the related information from the operation history, and, the determination information of the each piece of the related information to indicate “invalid” if a number of days elapsed since the last use date exceeds the effective period; and a unit of extracting the recommendation content by using at least one of the each piece of the related information of the content having the determination information thereof set to indicate “valid” and the operation history. | 08-02-2012 |
20120166704 | ADDRESS GENERATING AND DETECTING METHOD AND REPRODUCING AND RECORDING APPARATUS - Recording capacity per layer is detected from a disc and bit allocation of wobble addresses in a conventional optical disc and bit allocation in a high-density optical disc are controlled selectively to detect physical position addresses on the disc. Address detection can be performed for two kinds of discs which are equal in structure of addresses embedded in wobbles but different in bit allocation of addresses. | 06-28-2012 |
20120147294 | Backlight Unit and Liquid Crystal Display Device Using the Same - “A backlight unit having a LED light source which includes a light guide plate partitioned in areas having a tapered shape formed of a thick and thin portion. The light guide plate forms a thick and thin portion repeated at certain intervals, and the repeated thick portions and the repeated thin portions gradually decrease in thickness. The LED light source is attached to a lateral side of thick portions. Grooves are formed in the light irradiation direction of the LED light source and in a direction perpendicularly intersecting the light irradiation direction. Each of the grooves is formed in an concave shape. There is a relation 0.2/30<=W/D<0.1 where D denotes the distance between the light guide plate and a light diffusion plate, and W denotes the width of each of the grooves. An inclination angle 0 relative to the center of each of the grooves is between 9 and 15 degrees inclusive. | 06-14-2012 |
20120113359 | Backlight Unit and a Liquid Crystal Display Apparatus Applying the Same Therein - A backlight unit and a video display apparatus having a plural number of sets of one or more of light sources. A light guidance plate for guiding lights from the light sources to a side of a liquid crystal panel, to be emitted. The light sources are disposed on one end side of the light guidance plate. Assuming that width of the gap or groove is “d”, distance between a light incident surface of the liquid crystal panel and a light emission surface of the light guidance plate, or distance between a light incident surface of an optical member disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the light guidance plate and a light emission surface of the light guidance plate is “h”, and further 2.0 mm>d≧0.1 mm and 10.0 mm>h≧0.4 mm, then the following condition is satisfied: 4≦h/d≦100. | 05-10-2012 |
20120106307 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS AND DEFOCUS CORRECTING METHOD - An optical disc apparatus in which a bias of a focusing error signal is changed to a value according to a recording power at timing corresponding to a predetermined address position before starting the recording and a defocus of an opposite polarity is preliminarily caused so as to set off a defocus which occurs at the start of the recording. | 05-03-2012 |
20120075975 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND OPTICAL DISC - The invention prevents mark distortion during high-speed recording on an optical disc, thereby improving recording performance. A write pulse signal includes mark periods during which marks | 03-29-2012 |
20120044795 | Optical Disc Drive - Bandwidth is secured for a read signal transmission line by matching the characteristic impedance of the read signal transmission line with the output impedance of a photodetector of an optical pick up, while at the same time securing bandwidth for the photodetector. In an optical disc drive according to an embodiment of the present invention, each line forming a differential transmission line is divided into a plurality of lines of the same quantity, the quantity being two or more, at or near a connection point between a flexible line and the optical pick up. | 02-23-2012 |
20110320471 | Movie Recommendation System and Movie Recommendation Method - There is provided a movie recommendation system, including: a scene metadata obtaining module for obtaining metadata which contains keywords associated with scenes, and time axis information indicating times at which the keywords appear, the scenes included in a movie content; a movie content information obtaining module for obtaining information of a movie content to be reproduced by a user; a contents preference information obtaining module for obtaining contents preference information, which is generated by assigning preference of the user to the keywords that are contained in the obtained metadata, based on the obtained information of the movie content; and a scene recommendation module for outputting at least one keyword preferred by the user from among the keywords contained in the movie content, based on the obtained contents preference information, in association with a scene recommended to the user. | 12-29-2011 |
20110299374 | MULTILAYER OPTICAL DISC - A multilayer optical disc which has three or more recording layers and enables easy positioning of a focused beam spot onto a particular recording layer in which a BCA is disposed. An inter-layer distance between a particular recording layer and a recording layer adjacent to the particular recording layer is larger than the other inter-layer distances in which, at the focused beam spot positioning, the focused beam spot traverses the said adjacent recording layer earlier than the other recording layer adjacent to the particular recording layer. | 12-08-2011 |
20110243526 | Video/Audio Player - A video/audio player includes a video/audio data input section that inputs video/audio data, a playback control section that controls playback of the input video/audio data, a chapter point setting section that detects an end point of a given interval of the input video/audio data, and sets a chapter point to the detected end point, and an automatic skip interval setting section that detects the given interval of the input video/audio data as an interval to be automatically skipped. The playback control section automatically skips the given interval set by the automatic skip interval setting section at the time of reproducing the input video/audio data, and upon receiving a skip instruction from a user, skips a reproducing playback position to a chapter point temporally after and closest to the reproducing playback position among the chapter points set by the chapter point setting points. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242450 | LED Package and LED Package Mounting Structure - A highly reliable LED package mounting structure which can realize improvement in solder fatigue life at low costs is provided. An LED package has a light-emitting surface which is perpendicular to a mounting surface of a circuit board, comprises connection terminal portions on the side face or on the side face and the bottom face of the package, and is joined with the circuit board by soldering via the connection terminal portion. Furthermore, the shape of the solder is optimized by defining the relative position relation between the end of an electrode on the central side of the LED package on the bottom face of an LED package body and the end of a component mounting pad on the circuit board. | 10-06-2011 |
20110235805 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ENCRYPTION KEY IN THE STORAGE SYSTEM - In a storage system including a plurality of recording medium drives and encrypting and recording data with a device key, even if a recording medium drive fails and is replaced with another drive, the data stored by the failed recording medium drive can be reproduced. The plurality of recording medium drives has not only their own device keys, but also copies of the device keys of the other recording medium drives. If any one of the recording medium drives is replaced and data in a recording medium mounted in the replaced recording medium drive cannot be decrypted, the drive queries the other recording medium drives to acquire a copy of a device key of a recording medium drive used in the past and decrypts the encrypted data. | 09-29-2011 |
20110235481 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING FILE SYSTEM IN THE STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system, which includes a plurality of ODDs, is configured so as to easily retrieving a predetermined file from files stored in a plurality of optical discs. The storage system includes a storage controller connected to the plurality of ODDs and a nonvolatile memory via a storage bus. Each of the optical discs mounted in the ODDs has a file system representing the storage structure of files stored in the optical disc. The nonvolatile memory stores copies of the file systems of all the mounted optical discs. A user refers to the file system stored in the nonvolatile memory to retrieve a file. When an optical disc is ejected, the optical disc stores copies of the file systems of the other optical discs and is ejected. If the optical disc is installed into another storage system, the user can search for a file stored in the other optical discs. | 09-29-2011 |
20110220384 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND CHAMBER FOR MANUFACTURING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A structure of a panel which can be thinned down to about a panel thickness of a PDP and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. A gas filling hole is provided to a surface of a rear glass substrate of a PDP, the surface coming in contact with a front glass substrate of the PDP. Vacuuming and filling of a discharge gas are performed through the gas filling hole. After filling of the discharge gas, a mechanism for lifting solder iron up and down and supplying solder provided inside a chamber inserts a tip of an ultrasonic soldering iron into the gas filling hole to start supplying a solder which is a material for a plug sealant. When a series of forming steps of the plug sealant are finished, the ultrasonic soldering iron is retreated before the solder is solidified to finish formation of the plug sealant. | 09-15-2011 |
20110211432 | OPTICAL DISC AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - The invention provides an optical disc apparatus which prevents that a laser beam whose power is set at a read power level causes erroneous data recording or deletion. The optical disc apparatus includes an emission controller which controls an amount of an electrical current that a current supply portion supplies to a laser diode in order to control a level of emission power at which the laser diode emits the laser beam. The emission controller has a function to set levels of the emission power at the following transition processings: a transition processing after a read processing and before a write processing, a transition processing after a write processing and before a read processing, a transition processing between two read processings for respective areas, and a transition processing between two write processings for respective areas. | 09-01-2011 |
20110197211 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVE - In an optical disc drive, a degradation of traveling performance of an optical pickup under hard acceleration or hard deceleration in a random access operation or the like results in a degradation of recording/reproducing performance. Groove structure is provided between two gears of a guide feed provided in an optical pickup, and the groove forms bending structure. Thus, the engagement state between a screw gear and the gears of the guide feed is stabilized. This makes it possible to prevent tooth jumping and step-out from occurring in the gears during the traveling of the optical pickup, achieving stable traveling. In consequence, the recoding/reproducing performance of the optical disc drive can be improved. | 08-11-2011 |
20110197210 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVE - An optical disc drive with low vibration and low noise without risk of damage to components and injury caused by ejection of the disc tray with the rotating optical disc from a housing is provided by simple structure. In a disc-tray scheme of the optical disc drive, a brake member attached to the inside of the housing is placed to be in contact with the optical disc sliding thereon when the disc tray is in a predetermined position except the disc recording/reproducing position and the disc loading/unloading position, and to be connected to the disc tray when the disc tray is in the disc recording/reproducing position. | 08-11-2011 |
20110157247 | Display Apparatus and Control Circuit of the Same - An image display device using the area control method for eliminating irregularities as seen from the side and also capable of lowering power consumption. The degree of flatness indicating the image flatness of an image in each image area is calculated, and in areas that are flat the light source luminance is set high in order to lessen irregularities as seen from the side; and in areas that are not flat the irregularities are difficult to perceive as seen from the side so an effect that cuts power consumption is obtained without having to correct the light source luminance. | 06-30-2011 |
20110142127 | Image Processing Device - Disclosed is an image processing technique which more suitably reduces flicker noise. An image display device is comprised of an input unit which inputs encoded image data containing images encoded by intraframe prediction and interframe prediction, an image decoder which decodes the encoded image data, a filter unit which filters the decoded images output from the image decoder, and a display unit which displays the image after filtering. The filter unit performs at least a process to correct the pixel values in a decoded image decoded by interframe prediction immediately preceding in time a decoded image decoded by intraframe prediction of the decoded images output from the image decoder. | 06-16-2011 |
20110131575 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A recording/reproducing apparatus, for producing a virtual disc independent upon a host PC, and for managing virtual discs with an easy operation, comprises a CPU | 06-02-2011 |
20110126221 | Flexible Printed Circuit and Electric Apparatus and Optical Disc Drive Having Flexible Printed Circuit - A electronic device including a mechanism for changing the relative positions of two circuit boards such as in an optical disc drive, in which a flexible printed circuit electrically connecting between the two circuit board changes shape to suppress fluctuations in the transmission characteristics occurring due to contact with metal such as a case, and provides stable signal transmission. A flexible printed circuit is comprised of at least one or more differential lines, a fixed unit affixed to a case at least at one location, a movable unit that changes shape according to the relative positions of two case. The lines adjacent to the differential line are a grounded surface, and the flexible printed circuit is formed to narrow the distance between the movable unit lines more than the distance between the fixed unit lines. | 05-26-2011 |
20110116351 | Servo Controller and Optical Disk Device - In a servo controller and an optical disk device (FIG. | 05-19-2011 |
20110110206 | OPTICAL DISK DEVICE - Proposed is an optical disk device capable of optimally adjusting a current value of a direct current and a high frequency superimposed current for driving a laser diode. This optical disk device includes a laser driver for superimposing a high frequency current on a direct current to obtain a drive current and supplying the drive current to the laser beam source and driving the laser beam source, and a control unit for adjusting a current value of the direct current and/or the high frequency superimposed current supplied by the laser driver to the laser beam source based on the servo signal or the reproduction signal. The control unit adjusts the current value of the direct current and/or the high frequency superimposed current so that a value representing a waveform fluctuation of the servo signal or the reproduction signal satisfies a specified value of the waveform fluctuation, a value representing a reproduction performance of the reproduction signal satisfies a specified value of the reproduction performance, and a value representing a durability performance of the optical disk in relation to the laser beam satisfies a specified value of the durability performance. | 05-12-2011 |
20110096647 | Optical Disc Apparatus - An optical disc apparatus including means for calculating a spherical aberration correction quantity of an object lens, reproduced information signal generation means and spherical aberration correction means conducts spherical aberration correction, finds a spherical aberration correction quantity suitable for another layer by calculation on the basis of the obtained spherical aberration correction quantity, and sets the correction quantity as an initial correction quantity of spherical aberration correction. An optical disc apparatus including tilt correction quantity calculation means, reproduced information signal generation means and tilt adjustment means conducts tilt adjustment, finds a tilt correction quantity suitable for another layer by calculation on the basis of the obtained tilt correction quantity, and sets the correction quantity as an initial correction quantity of tilt adjustment. | 04-28-2011 |
20110080951 | Image Encoding Method, Image Decoding Method, Image Encoding Apparatus, Image Decoding Apparatus, and Program - A technique for improving a compression rate without needing new determination information (encoding flag information) is provided. For compression of each area to be encoded, based on a skip mode (a process which does not compress information of the area to be encoded, but copies previous information of the area to be encoded), it is determined whether an existing predicted image generated by an existing encoding standard is used, or an interpolation predicted image newly generated by executing move searching between decoded images is used. | 04-07-2011 |
20110080822 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVE - When a multilayered optical disc is used, the signal-to-noise ratio of a read signal is decreased as effective reflectance is extremely low due to the influence of reflection and absorption by front recording layers. Further, when a high-frequency modulation technology is used to suppress returned light noise of a laser, the erasure of recorded information is likely to occur on certain types of discs, making it difficult to simultaneously achieve the suppression of returned light noise of a laser and the prevention of the erasure of recorded information. To address the above problems, the present invention includes a section that performs a read by executing a multi-tone demodulation. The present invention also includes a section that controls the position and shape of a read light pulse to be radiated on a recording layer. | 04-07-2011 |
20110075115 | Video Projector - An object of the invention is to reduce the size and weight of a video projector by shortening the length of the arm of a mirror rotator and reducing the size of a mirror. A video projector comprises a plurality of projection lenses through which image light rays from a liquid crystal panel are extracted in a magnified manner; a reflective mirror for reflecting the extracted image light rays onto a screen; and a mirror rotator for rotating the reflective mirror so that the extracted image light rays can be reflected in particular directions. Among the projection lenses, some of the projection lenses located farther away from the liquid crystal penal are partially cut such that areas through which the image light rays do not pass are cut off to create a lens cut-off space. The mirror rotator is placed in the lens cut-off space. | 03-31-2011 |
20110062866 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A protective layer has, on its back side, an electron emissive layer formed of magnesium oxide crystals. Based on a front view of discharge cells C, there are defined intersection regions (first regions) where display electrode pairs (each including a sustain electrode X and a scan electrode Y) and address electrodes Z intersect and a remaining region (a second region) E | 03-17-2011 |
20110057961 | Liquid Crystal Display Device and Backlight Control Method - In a liquid crystal device, an in-region gradation value detection section detects gradation levels of input video signals on every sub-region, removing gradation levels of pixels within a predetermined upper range (m %) from the brightest gradation level in the sub-region to detect the maximum in-region gradation level Pa. A boundary gradation value detecting section removes gradation levels for pixels within a predetermined upper range (n %) from the brightest gradation level for pixel groups belonging to the region boundary portion in the sub-region to detect the maximum boundary gradation level Pb. A backlight control value deciding section selects higher one of the level Pa and the level Pb as the maximum gradation level Pc in the sub-region, and decides a backlight control value K based on the ratio between the level Pc and the upper limit value Pmax of the gradation level. | 03-10-2011 |
20110051589 | Optical Disc, Optical Disc Reproducing Apparatus, Optical Disc Apparatus, Reproducing Method and Recording Method - Where a hybrid disc has different types of media, the light spot moves among recording layers of the different media, after loading the disc into an optical disc apparatus, there is a problem that information on a media type of each recording layer should be recorded in DI etc. of the optical disc. Detailed information on the hybrid disc is stored in DI, by changing a disc layer type identifier or a disc structure in DI such as BCA or PIC on the optical disc. | 03-03-2011 |
20110051098 | Projection Type Display Apparatus - A projection type display apparatus in accordance with the present invention is provided with a lamp unit including a light source, a cooling fan cooling the light source, and a cooling wind guide tube guiding a cooling wind generated by the cooling fan to the lamp unit, and the cooling wind guide tube is structured such as to have a movable type rectification plate which is movable by its own weight, and cools the light source without being affected by an installed direction of the projection type display apparatus. | 03-03-2011 |
20110051036 | Liquid Crystal Display Device - The invention makes patterns which may show, according to the positioning of light guide plates, along the vertical direction of a display screen of a side-edge type liquid crystal display device inconspicuous. This is achieved by disposing light guide plates so as to guide the illumination light from light sources, for example, LEDs along the vertical direction of the display screen. The vertically guided illumination light is reflected, with reflection sheets also facilitating the reflection, at rear sides of the light guide plates and is, after traveling through a diffusion sheet to be made more uniform, further guided to liquid crystals. Even though boundaries between light guide plates are generally more conspicuous along the vertical direction of a display screen than along the horizontal direction, first guiding the illumination light into a vertical direction removes the problem of such boundaries conspicuously showing along the vertical direction. | 03-03-2011 |
20110019740 | Video Decoding Method - In methods in which coding is performed by switching, per area, between a predicted image generated by an existing coding standard and an image newly generated by performing motion estimation between decoded images, it is necessary to further provide determination information as to which image is to be used, which may in some cases result in compression efficiency that is inferior to those of conventional standards depending on the input video. By determining whether a predicted image generated by an existing coding standard is to be used or an image newly generated by performing motion estimation between decoded images is to be used based on coding information within the frame to be coded or within a previously coded frame, the need for such determination information is obviated to improve compression efficiency. | 01-27-2011 |
20110019514 | Recording and Reproducing Apparatus and Method - A Spare Area kept unused on a disk is available for use other than spare processing, or Defect Management process, and compatibility of the disk is at least secured between different recording apparatuses. This is implemented by recording a SWP_PAC cluster defined as a new item and by recording address information of used addresses in a PAC or TDDS area. | 01-27-2011 |
20110002206 | Apparatus and Method for Recording/Reproducing On/From Medium - To prevent the degradation in read access performance to replacement data caused by not selecting appropriate replacement clusters and to suppress the waste of the number of DFL registrations. Attention is paid to the usage direction of a user data area and that of a replacement area, and in the case where one CRD-type DFL registration can be made collectively in the sequential defect management processes, a replacement area of which the usage direction is the same as that of the user data area is selected. | 01-06-2011 |
20110002205 | Medium Recording and Reproduction Apparatus and Method - Medium recording and reproduction apparatus and method can prevent prohibition of disc recording due to the fact that laser power calibration area becomes unusable by studying a management information update method during data recording. When usable capacity of the laser power calibration area is monitored and the capacity is reduced, management information area to be currently updated is changed to another layer. | 01-06-2011 |
20100329640 | Recording/Reproducing Apparatus - A recording/reproducing apparatus, for enabling recording/reproducing of a three-dimensional (3D) video stream, by taking a display environment into the consideration thereof, comprises: a stream distinguishing means for distinguishing the three-dimensional (3D) video stream; a 3D/2D stream converting for converting the three-dimensional (3D) video stream distinguished by the stream distinguishing means into a two-dimensional (2D) video stream; and a conversion indicating means for indicating to execute the 3D/2D conversion, wherein the three-dimensional (3D) video stream is converted into the two-dimensional (2D) video stream by the 3D/2D stream means, when the 3D/2D conversion is indicted in the conversion indicating means. | 12-30-2010 |
20100306855 | Content Processing Apparatus and Content Processing Method - Having received an addition notification of a piece of download content, a content processing apparatus registers the notified content as a piece of download-scheduled content. The apparatus recalculates the priority rank of the download execution by taking into consideration a change in the license information on each piece of content, including a piece of already-preregistered download-scheduled content and a piece of content whose download is underway at present. If the download-execution target content specified by the recalculated priority rank is different from the content whose download is underway at present, the apparatus changes the download-execution target to the content specified by the priority rank. | 12-02-2010 |
20100295988 | Information Recording Apparatus and Power-Saving Method Therefor - An information recording apparatus for recording information obtained from a sensor, comprises: a face detecting unit for detecting a face of a person among the information obtained from the sensor; a face detection switching unit for switching a control of the face detecting unit between valid and invalid; a face detection setup information obtaining unit for obtaining information of whether face detection set up by the face detection switching unit is valid or invalid; a face detection observation unit for observing on whether detection is made on the face or not, when the face detection is valid; a power-saving controller unit for executing a power-saving control; a recording unit for record the information inputted from the sensor onto a recording medium; a recording observation unit for observing on whether recording of the information is conducted or not by the recording unit; a memory unit for memorizing information necessary for controlling the information recording apparatus; and a controller unit for controlling each constituent elements mentioned above, wherein the controller unit executes a control for reducing an electric power consumption of the information recording apparatus, by the power-saving controller unit, when determining that: the control of the face detection unit is valid from the face detection setup information obtaining unit; face detection is not made on the face of the person from the face detection observation unit; and recording of the information is not made from the recording observation unit. | 11-25-2010 |
20100295879 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus includes a dimming value determination circuit for determining a dimming value of a backlight based on an input image signal, an image signal compensation circuit for compensating the input image signal supplied to a liquid crystal panel in accordance with the dimming value, and a backlight drive circuit for driving and controlling the backlight in accordance with the dimming value. When the light emitting luminance of the present frame of the backlight increases relative to the light emitting luminance of the previous frame, the backlight drive circuit delays the timing for applying the dimming value of the present frame. This makes it possible to reduce power consumption of the backlight by suppressing deterioration in the image quality in spite of the sharp change in the display image luminance. | 11-25-2010 |
20100295839 | Image Display Device - Disclosed is an image display device that provides power consumption reduction control in an improved manner. The image display device includes an input that inputs a video signal, an output controller that reproduces the video signal entered into the input, a display that displays an image in accordance with the video signal reproduced by the output controller, an imager that picks up an image of a user of the image display device, an attentiveness decider that analyzes the image picked up by the imager and judges whether the user is watching a display screen of the display, and a controller that selects either a normal mode or a power saving mode as a processing mode for light intensity control of a light source of the display or for reproduction in the output controller in accordance with the result of decision made by the attentiveness decider. | 11-25-2010 |
20100293570 | Content Transmitter and Receiver Apparatus and Content Transmitting and Receiving Method - A content transmitter apparatus is provided which decides whether to permit a content receiver apparatus at a content transmission destination to retransmit content to another content receiver apparatus located inside a house and transmits to the content receiver apparatus the content along with an identifier indicating a permission or prohibition of the content retransmission. A content receiver apparatus is also provided which, when it receives encrypted content from the content transmitter apparatus, checks an identifier received together with the content in executing the content retransmission to another content receiver apparatus located outside the house. If the identifier is found to permit the content retransmission, the content receiver apparatus encrypts and retransmits the content to the outside-house content receiver apparatus. If the identifier is found to not permit the content retransmission, the content receiver apparatus does not retransmit the content to the outside of the house. | 11-18-2010 |
20100271548 | Video Apparatus - A video apparatus includes plural interface sections such as HDMI (Registered Trademark) sections for connection with plural video signal sources, a function transferring section which transfers functions of the interface sections, and one or more function blocks for use in common to the plural interface sections. The functions are assigned to the interface sections such as HDMI sections connected with the video signal sources, via switches for example, to minimize the number of the function blocks to be provided. | 10-28-2010 |
20100268783 | Content Delivery System, Delivery Server, Receiving Terminal, and Content Delivery Method - A transmitting terminal can transmit a content held by itself to a specific receiving terminal having no email software as if using a mailer. The transmitting terminal ( | 10-21-2010 |
20100265804 | FOCUS JUMP METHOD FOR OPTICAL DISK DEVICE AND MULTI-LAYER DISK - An optical disk device for recording/reproducing information on/from a multi-layer optical disk moves a light focusing point for several layers by one focus jump. The optical disk device includes a controller to detect a level of a focus error signal to change an output level of a focus drive signal, and the controller changes timing to change the output level of the focus drive signal based on the number of layers for the focus jump. | 10-21-2010 |
20100245680 | TELEVISION OPERATION METHOD - A television operation method whereby a desired content screen can be easily shown on a TV receiver by control operation on the display of a remote terminal. When the TV display of the TV receiver shows a received program screen and the remote display of the remote terminal shows another received program screen, if the screen shown on the remote display is transferred to the TV display, a reception remote control screen to enable channel selection appears on the remote display. If buttons are operated so as to show a related web screen on the remote display and transfer the related web screen to the TV display, a web remote control screen for control of a cursor on the related web screen appears on the remote display. | 09-30-2010 |
20100226228 | RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The invention solves the problem that data cannot be recorded on a disc because the number of registered Defect Lists (DFLs) has reached a limit and the problem that the access performance is reduced at recording data reproduction time. A cluster, which is normally reproduced during verification processing and is preceded and followed by one or more defective blocks, is also treated as a defective block and, together with the preceding and following defective clusters, recorded in an spare area for extending the range in which clusters are registered as Contiguous Re-allocated Defect (CRD) entries. This reduces the number of DFLs to solve the problem that data cannot be recorded on the disc and, in addition, reduces the number of seek operations to prevent the access performance from being reduced at reproduction time. | 09-09-2010 |
20100214508 | Backlight Unit and Liquid Crystal Display Device Using the Same - A backlight unit having a LED light source includes a light guide plate partitioned in areas each having a tapered shape formed of a thick portion and a thin portion. The light guide plate is formed such that a thick portion and a thin portion are repeated at certain intervals, and the repeated thick portions and the repeated thin portions gradually decrease in thickness. The LED light source is attached to a lateral side of each thick portion. Grooves are formed in the light irradiation direction of the LED light source and in a direction perpendicularly intersecting the light irradiation direction. Each of the grooves is formed in an concave shape (V-shape or trapezoid-shape). There is a relation 0.2/30<=W/D<0.1 where D denotes the distance between the light guide plate and a light diffusion plate, and W denotes the width of each of the grooves. An inclination angle θ relative to the center of each of the grooves is between 9 and 15 degrees inclusive. | 08-26-2010 |
20100214429 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that receives image data in response to a photographic subject, a face detection unit that detects a human face from the received image data, a photometry unit that performs a photometry of the detected human face, an exposure control unit that calculates a target exposure amount in accordance with a photometry result to calculate an exposure control value, and an exposure correction control unit that determines an exposure in response to the target exposure amount, wherein an exposure correction unit performs an exposure correction by using an exposure target determined by the exposure correction control unit, as an area smaller than a domain of the human face detected by the face detection unit is set to the photometry area. | 08-26-2010 |
20100194791 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - For the purpose of obtaining a video signal by suppressing a black float while not consuming an excess electric power therein, not contributing to display of a backlight, a video display apparatus having a plural number of backlights for irradiating lights upon a display panel, comprises a histogram detector for conducting a histogram detection for each display region corresponding to that backlight from an input video signal of one (1) frame, a means for determining a control value of that plural number of backlights depending on a specific picture or video, which is detected by the histogram detector, and a video signal processor for controlling an amount of a controlled light the display panel of a display region, i.e., a put-out region, depending on the backlight control value, which is determined by the means for determining the control value of the backlight. | 08-05-2010 |
20100182541 | Backlight Unit and a Liquid Crystal Display Apparatus Applying the Same Therein - A backlight unit, being thin-sized, but having high definition and high uniformity of luminance, and a video display apparatus applying the same therein, has a plural number of sets of at least one or more of light source(s) ( | 07-22-2010 |
20100182304 | MATRIX DISPLAY DEVICE - A matrix display device has first and second discharge sustaining electrode drive circuits that perform power recovery for the capacitance load through an LC resonance circuit using an inductor. During a luminescence emission period, a discharge is effected for display by applying an alternating voltage between each of plural first discharge sustaining electrodes and each of plural second discharge sustaining electrodes with a capacitance load corresponding to each display pixel. In the address scanning operation, the scan drive circuit selects the first discharge sustaining electrode per line, and in the discharge sustaining operation, the scan drive circuit provides a function for recovering power on the first discharge sustaining electrode. This is intended to decrease loss in the power recovery operation. | 07-22-2010 |
20100157770 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVE AND OPTICAL INFORMATION READ METHOD - An HF waveform prevailing during a read operation varies due, for instance, to changes in the ambient temperature of an optical disc drive and variations in the characteristics of a laser. This degrades read performance and decreases the number of rewritable disc read operations. To address the above problems, an optical disc drive and an optical information read method are disclosed. The disclosed optical disc drive and optical information read method vary an HF amplitude in relation to the resistance, differential resistance, or temperature of the laser. | 06-24-2010 |
20100141674 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The disclosed invention provides a display device for performing a gradation display, using a plurality of subframes of image into which one frame of image is divided, and a display method that reduces dynamic false contour noises occurring when the image is displayed and is suitable for plasma display panels and the like. Dynamic false contour noise reduction is performed by detecting luminance on/off state change (carry up/carry down) in a region where a smooth tone level change occurs and interchanging the tone values of pixels in the region. The reduction processing is controlled, based on an amount of motion of an original image and a display load ratio, so that dynamic false contour noise reduction is performed favorably. By carrying out different ways of processing for each frame, noise reduction in the time domain is performed. | 06-10-2010 |
20100134649 | SIGNAL PROCESSOR - A signal processor capable of extracting evaluated values used for automatic control more appropriately, including: a feature detection unit which detects a feature change position of any target pixel and its peripheral pixels in an input picture signal; a hold unit which holds the position information; a region creation unit which creates a region by excluding the held positions from an evaluated value extraction region; and an evaluated value extraction unit which extracts evaluated values in accordance with the region; wherein unnecessary portions different in feature from the periphery are extracted in accordance with any pixel unit by detection of the feature change position so that the feature change position is excluded from the evaluated value extraction region. | 06-03-2010 |
20100128792 | VIDEO DECODING METHOD - A method of decoding videos comprises the steps of performing, in respect of a decoding objective area of decoding objective frame, a motion search by using images of plural frames finished with decoding and deciding, on the basis of the result of the motion search, whether an image of the decoding objective area is to be generated through an interpolation process or a decoded image is to be generated through motion compensation using data included in an encoding stream. | 05-27-2010 |
20100123882 | Leg Length Adjusting Mechanism for a Projection Type Image Display Unit - A projection type image display unit has a housing on which a light source and an image display part for transmission or reflection of light from the light source are mounted. The unit includes a position adjusting device, by which a displayed position of an image is adjusted. The position adjusting device comprises: a manipulation member being vertically movable with a part thereof projecting from a side of the housing; a leg member projecting from a bottom of the housing and adapted to freely vary an amount of the projection thereof; and a connecting member connecting the manipulation member with the leg member to set the amount of the projection of the leg member by manipulating the manipulation member in a vertical direction. The connecting member comprises a lever member so that a movement direction of the manipulation member becomes the same as a movement direction of the housing and a movement amount of the manipulation member substantially becomes the same as a movement amount of the housing. | 05-20-2010 |
20100118668 | OPTICAL DISK DRIVE - Rotation synchronization detection means is provided which detects a specified rotational phase having a period of one revolution of an optical disk. An output of the rotation synchronization detection means is synchronized with an output of rotation phase detection means for detecting a rotation phase on the basis of a FG signal and thereafter, information of surface vibration component and eccentricity component is memorized in memories before a sleep process in accordance with the output of the rotation phase detection means or a timing until jump is determined in accordance with the output of the rotation phase detection means and during recovery from the sleep status of stopping the disk once, the output of the rotation synchronization detection means is again synchronized with the output of the rotation phase detection means adapted to detect the rotation phase on the basis of the FG signal. | 05-13-2010 |
20100096975 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - In order to reduce the discharge delay time and increase the image quality in a display device such as a PDP using ultraviolet light emission produced by discharge, there is provided a display device including: a front panel and a rear panel disposed opposite to each other with discharge spaces formed therebetween, and a discharge gas being injected into the discharge spaces; at least a pair of electrodes for performing a display discharge; and phosphor layers emitting visible light by using ultraviolet light emission produced by discharge of the discharge gas. At least one of the compounds represented by the composition formulas Cs | 04-22-2010 |
20100091186 | Display System and Receiving Apparatus - A flame rate is up-converted two times by an STB (Set-Top Box) and a display apparatus which have a frame rate conversion function respectively. Thereby, the flame rate is converted to approximately “n” times higher frame rate which is a driving frequency of a display device used in a display apparatus. The display apparatus and the STB respectively have an image quality correcting circuit and an OSD (On-Screen Display) circuit which are selected to be used and displayed according to the display apparatus connected. In such configurations, the STB can be commonly utilized with respect to various sorts of display apparatuses having a liquid crystal display panel, a PDP (Plasma Display Panel), and other types of display panels. | 04-15-2010 |
20100083295 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND OPTICAL RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - When a super resolution technology for optical disks is used in a situation where optical disk management information is formed with a signal that cannot be reproduced by a reproduction method based on a conventional optical disk technology, optical disk drives cannot make recording adjustments and/or reproduction adjustments. | 04-01-2010 |
20100061206 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD - To solve the problem of deterioration in recording quality due to a change of a write waveform caused by changes of temperature and recording powers, aged deterioration and the like. A driver having a function of controlling rise/fall times and an overshoot amount of an optical waveform is used to optimize an optical waveform that changes in recording under the influence of a component of a laser and the like. Specifically, the rise/fall times and the overshoot amount of the optical waveform are optimized by obtaining a waveform control register value from test recording or a table. | 03-11-2010 |
20100053806 | DISC DRIVE APPARATUS - A disc drive apparatus comprises: a spindle motor | 03-04-2010 |
20100027390 | SIGNAL CONVERSION MODULE AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS USING THE SAME - The MTD has some problems. Firstly, even if an input bandwidth is widened to obtain a larger SNR gain, an increase in the SNR gain cannot always be obtained due to the clock jitter that increases clock noise. Secondly, noise is sometimes superimposed on the clock supplied to an ADC when a transmission path connecting a clock-signal source to an ADC has a certain distance or when a certain form of mounting these members is employed. The noise lowers the performance. Provided is an optical disc apparatus including: a means for regulating loosely the bandwidth of a pulsed read signal; a means for boosting high-frequency components of a waveform of a driving signal of a laser diode; and a means for synchronizing autonomously a driving clock of the ADC and a DAC with a clock of the pulsed read signal. | 02-04-2010 |
20100023957 | Optical Disc Apparatus - An optical disc apparatus for enabling reduction of fluid noises accompanying with disc rotation, effectively, comprises a tray | 01-28-2010 |
20100013370 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - Provided is a plasma display device which is bright and has high contrast and high image quality. A plasma display device includes: a front substrate and a back substrate facing each other interposing a discharge gap; and a plurality of discharge cells formed by the front substrate and the back substrate, wherein a mixture gas containing Xe is filled in the discharge gap, and each of a plurality of phosphor layers of red, green, and blue is arranged in the discharge cell. And, the plasma display device performs a reset operation by, at least, a weak discharge. A crystal material is arranged in the phosphor layers of red, green, and blue so as to uniform weak discharge firing voltages for reset discharges in respective discharge cells. | 01-21-2010 |