Patent application number | Description | Published |
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 |
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 |
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 |
20130100793 | Optical Pickup and Optical Disc Drive - A optical pickup includes: a laser diode; a driver including a first output end of a laser diode drive current; a first line electrically connected to the first output end of the driver and a first port of the laser diode; a second line provided adjacent to the signal line at at least one location or more and electrically connected to a second port of the laser diode; a printed circuit board including the first and second lines; and a metal heat dissipation cover for the driver. The first and second lines form a two layer structure in which the first and second lines are vertically disposed. The line width of the line provided close to the heat dissipation cover is wider than the line width of the other line between the first and second lines in the two layer structure. | 04-25-2013 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |