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| 20080260246 | COLOR PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A color processing method includes outputting, via an image output device, a chart image in which a plurality of images obtained by applying illuminant corrections corresponding to a plurality of different illuminants to images corresponding to a plurality of representative colors are arranged in a predetermined layout, receiving a user's instruction to select one of the illuminant corrections corresponding to one of the plurality of different illuminants based on the output chart image, and setting the selected illuminant correction to be applied to an original image, wherein the plurality of representative colors are memory colors. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080266554 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a unit configured to acquire spectral data of ambient light to be estimated, a unit configured to receive spectral data and ambient light type information of a plurality of reference ambient light conditions, a comparison unit configured to compare the spectral data of the ambient light to be estimated with the spectral data of the plurality of reference ambient light conditions, and an estimation unit configured to estimate an ambient light type of the spectral data of the ambient light to be estimated from the ambient light type information of the reference ambient light based on a result of comparison provided by the comparison unit. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090051968 | PRINT CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF PRINT CONTROL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - When a subsidiary printout is printed from a printer driver, it is an object to enable a subsidiary print job to be formed without destroying a relationship between the master and the servant in a print process. A first print job formed by a first application program is input through an operating system and a printer driver processes the input first print job. A second application program which forms a second print job different from the first print job and sends to the operating system is provided. The printer driver starts the second application program, transfers settings of the printer driver to the second application program, receives the second print job formed by the second application program through the operating system, processes the second print job, and allows a printer to print the second print job. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20100157337 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing system comprising: a color conversion unit configured to perform color conversion from color data in a first color space into color data in a second color space by using a color profile; a correction unit configured to perform correction for the color data in the second color space by using correction data; a printing unit configured to print on a printing medium in accordance with the color data in the second color space that is corrected by the correction unit; a first changing unit configured to change the color profile; a second changing unit configured to change the correction data; and a selection unit configured to select, based on a color measurement result of a color chart for correcting a color of an image printed on the printing medium, one of processes including change of the color profile and change of the correction data. | 06-24-2010 |
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| 20140042893 | SPARK PLUG - A spark plug includes a tip joined to a center electrode. The coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the center electrode is greater than that of the tip. The tip has a gap-forming portion having a maximum width of 1.2 mm or greater and forming a gap in cooperation with the ground electrode and a to-be-joined portion joined to the center electrode. At a position A which is shifted 0.1 mm from the forward end of the outer surface of the fusion portion toward the forward end side, the width of the to-be-joined portion measured on the cross section is smaller than the width of the gap-forming portion. The to-be-joined portion satisfies Dtw/Dw≦1.1, where Dtw represents the width of the to-be-joined portion at the position A, and Dw represents the width of the fusion portion at the forward end of the outer surface thereof. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20150102720 | SPARK PLUG - A spark plug includes an electrode wherein a plurality of fusion regions are formed by melting to each other a circular noble metal tip having a diameter of not less than 2 mm and a base material disposed around an outer periphery of the noble metal tip. In a particular tip cross section, a total length of the portions passing the fusion region on the circumference of a circle A concentric to an outline of the tip and having a diameter of 90% of the length of the tip is not less than 30% of the length of the circumference of the concentric circle A, and a total length of the portions on which a circumference of a concentric circle B, having the same diameter as that of the outline passes, is not less than 30% of the length of the circumference of the concentric circle B. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150145402 | SPARK PLUG AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A spark plug includes a center electrode, a ground electrode, and a cylindrical metal shell. The ground electrode is welded to the metal shell via a weld portion. The weld portion is formed along the outer circumference end part of an annular part in the ground electrode. The weld portion has a plurality of melt extending parts extending toward the inner circumference side from the outer circumference end part of the annular part and aligned such that adjacent ones are connected to each other at the end part. The plurality of melt extending parts partially include smaller melt extending parts whose melting depth is smaller than others. | 05-28-2015 |
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| 20080258364 | CYLINDRICAL VIBRATION ISOLATING DEVICE - A cylindrical vibration isolating device having an inner cylinder, an outer cylinder surrounding the inner cylinder, an elastic leg having a pair of right and left leg portions to connect the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder and, when viewed in the axial direction of the inner cylinder, being formed in a substantially inverted V-shape while placing the inner cylinder in an intermediate position, and a mass projection being provided in the elastic leg such that the mass projection resonates in a frequency range that the elastic leg causes bending resonance. The mass projection is provided outside of an inner restraint line that is a perpendicular line passing an outermost point of an inner restrained portion that is a connected portion between the inner cylinder and the elastic leg. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20130043626 | LIQUID SEALED VIBRATION ISOLATING DEVICE - A partition member for partitioning a primary liquid chamber and a secondary liquid chamber is provided with a damping orifice passage and an elastic partition member. A stopper leg portion is integrally formed with and projects from a lower wall of an elastic diaphragm portion provided in a central region of the elastic partition member | 02-21-2013 |
| 20140097564 | LIQUID SEALED VIBRATION ISOLATING DEVICE - A partition member for partitioning a primary liquid chamber and a secondary liquid chamber is provided with a damping orifice and an elastic partition member. A leg portion integrally projects from a lower surface of the movable diaphragm so as to be pressed vertically against a stopper surface formed on an upper surface of the bottom portion of a frame member. A third liquid chamber is defined between an outer circumferential portion of the leg portion and the support wall. When a bottom surface of the leg portion is pressed against the stopper surface, the third liquid chamber is sealed to confine a hydraulic fluid thereby increasing the internal pressure. When the leg portion is brought out of contact with the stopper surface, the third liquid chamber is opened to the secondary liquid chamber, thereby allowing the hydraulic fluid to flow out of the third liquid chamber. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20150048562 | INVERTED LIQUID SEALED MOUNT - In the inverted type liquid sealed engine mount in which a secondary liquid chamber is located above, an insulator protrudes in a mountain shape into a primary liquid chamber, and a resistor is provided within an annular recess section formed around the protruding portion. The resistor is mounted by insertion into an engaging recess of a lining layer and elastically supported by ribs so as to be movable in the annular recess section due to liquid flowing in the circumferential direction. A regulation gap is provided between the resistor and the insulator. Although a peculiar resonance occurs when the liquid passes through the regulation gap, the peak of the anti-resonance is decreased and the frequency is moved, since the resistor is movable. | 02-19-2015 |
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| 20100194393 | GRADIENT COIL DEVICE, MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DESIGNING COIL PATTERN - There is provided a gradient coil device which can suppress any generation of an error magnetic field and thus an eddy current, and which can improve the image quality of a cross-sectional image. An MRI device includes a first coil generating a linear magnetic field distribution at an imaging region of the MRI device, and a second coil which suppresses any leakage of a magnetic field from the first coil to a static-magnetic-field coil device that generates a uniform magnetic field distribution at the imaging region. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100321019 | GRADIENT MAGNETIC FIELD COIL DEVICE AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS - When the gradient magnetic field | 12-23-2010 |
| 20120176137 | GRADIENT MAGNETIC FIELD COIL AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DEVICE - In the magnetic resonance imaging device, the distance between the first and second coils is different in the circumferential direction and has a first region (A | 07-12-2012 |
| 20130335088 | GRADIENT COIL DEVICE AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DEVICE - A gradient coil device includes a major axis gradient coil, having an ellipse in a cross section generating a gradient magnetic field inclined in a major axis direction of the ellipse at a magnetic field space; and a minor axis gradient coil, having an ellipse in a cross section generating a gradient magnetic field inclined in a minor axis direction of the ellipse at the magnetic field space. A length of the minor axis field coil in the center axis direction is shorter than a length of the major axis gradient coil in the center axis direction. A maximum value of a residual magnetic field generated by the minor axis gradient coil at a space outside the magnetic field space is equal to or smaller than a maximum value of a residual magnetic field generated by the major axis gradient coil at a space outside the magnetic field space. | 12-19-2013 |
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| 20090195110 | LAMINATED CORE, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING LAMINATED CORE, AND STATOR - A laminated core block includes a plurality of core members made of magnetic sheets stacked one on top of another, the plurality of core members including first and second core members which adjoin in a laminating direction, and a thermoplastic resin strand placed between the first and second core members. The thermoplastic resin strand is arranged to pass along one side surface of the first core member, between the first and second core members and along a side surface of the second core member on a side opposite to the aforementioned side surface of the first core member in this order. The first and second core members are bonded to each other by melting and curing the thermoplastic resin strand. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20100102807 | WIRE ROPE FLAW DETECTOR - A wire rope flaw detector comprises a back yoke and excitation permanent magnets, which form a main magnetic path in a predetermined section of a wire rope in the axial direction; a magnetic path member arranged in the predetermined section to be magnetically insulated from the back yoke and the permanent magnets and making the leakage flux generated from a damaged part of wire rope detour to the outside of the wire rope; and a detection coil wound around the magnetic path member for detecting leakage flux. The amount of leakage flux can be increased by providing the magnetic path member and since the windable area of the detection coil is increased, the number of turns of detection coil can be increased. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110180216 | LAMINATED CORE, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING LAMINATED CORE, AND STATOR - A laminated core block includes a plurality of core members made of magnetic sheets stacked one on top of another, the plurality of core members including first and second core members which adjoin in a laminating direction, and a thermoplastic resin strand placed between the first and second core members. The thermoplastic resin strand is arranged to pass along one side surface of the first core member, between the first and second core members and along a side surface of the second core member on a side opposite to the aforementioned side surface of the first core member in this order. The first and second core members are bonded to each other by melting and curing the thermoplastic resin strand. | 07-28-2011 |
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| 20100213420 | FINE PARTICLE COMPOSITE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, CATALYST USED FOR SOLID POLYMER FUEL CELL, AND SOLID POLYMER FUEL CELL - This invention provides a fine particle composite comprising fine particles of a sulfide or sulfide complex comprising at least one element selected from the group consisting of molybdenum (Mo), rhodium (Rh), ruthenium (Ru), and rhenium (Re) and conductive fine particles via a step of preparing a solvent mixture from a compound containing conductive carbon powder, at least one compound containing an element selected from among molybdenum (Mo), rhodium (Rh), ruthenium (R), and rhenium (Re), and sulfur (S) and a step of conducting a hydrothermal or solvothermal reaction at a pressure and temperature that convert the solvent mixture into a supercritical or subcritical water or solvent. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100316559 | SINGLE-CRYSTAL FINE POWDER OF SULFIDE OR SULFIDE COMPLEX AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME - This invention provides a fine particle composite comprising fine powder of a sulfide or sulfide complex comprising a given element. The fine particle composite is obtained by a method for producing a fine particle composite comprising fine powder of a sulfide or sulfide complex comprising at least one element selected from the group consisting of molybdenum (Mo), rhodium (Rh), ruthenium (Ru), and rhenium (Re). Such method comprises steps of: preparing a solvent mixture from at least one compound containing an element selected from among molybdenum (Mo), rhodium (Rh), ruthenium (Ru), rhenium (Re), and sulfur (S); and subjecting the solvent mixture to a hydrothermal or solvothermal reaction. The resulting fine particle composite comprises fine particles of a sulfide or sulfide complex comprising at least one element selected from the group consisting of molybdenum (Mo), rhodium (Rh), ruthenium (Ru), and rhenium (Re). | 12-16-2010 |
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| 20090075174 | LEAD-FREE BATTERY AND VEHICLE SYSTEM USING LEAD-FREE BATTERY - The present invention provides a high-performance, high-capacity secondary battery that uses neither sulfuric acid in the electrolyte solution, nor other materials that could contribute to environmental pollution. The present invention also provides a vehicle system employing a lead-free battery that uses no lead nor sulfuric acid, which can be harmful to the environment, and that achieves a higher performance and higher capacity that lead storage batteries. Further, the vehicle system includes a supplementary charging function for charging the battery while the vehicle is running, by taking advantage of the fast-charging characteristics of the lead-free battery, which are superior to those of lead storage batteries, enabling the vehicle to travel long distances on a single external charge. The secondary battery has an electrode formed of calcium, silver oxide, and carbon as the anode, an electrode formed of zinc and carbon as the cathode, and an aqueous alkaline solution as the electrolyte solution. The vehicle system has at least first and second battery packs configured of these lead-free batteries, in-wheel generators mounted within wheels of the vehicle, an electric motor for driving the vehicle, and a charging/discharging switch device having a controller for automatically switching between the first and second battery packs. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20160108702 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECOVERING OIL - There is provided a method or a device for recovering oil economically and with little impact on the environment. With the present invention's method and device for recovering oil, a heat-generating means is installed inside one of at least two pipes that are parallelly inserted into the soil (for example, an oil sand stratum or a core stratum). The heat is exerted on the oil contained in the soil so as to reduce the viscosity of oil, which is then recovered via the other pipe. The heat-generating means reacts amphoteric metal or its alloy with an alkaline aqueous solution in the pipe and then combusts the hydrogen generated by the reaction. | 04-21-2016 |
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| 20150185302 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS - A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores processor-executable instructions that cause the processor to detect cross-sectional positions of a plurality of cross-sectional images to be acquired in an imaging scan from volume data; acquire the cross-sectional images in sequence based on the cross-sectional positions by executing the imaging scan; and after the first cross-sectional image is acquired in the imaging scan, generate a display image, and display the display image on a display, the display image being an image in which a cross-sectional position of a second cross-sectional image which is detected from the volume data is superimposed on the first cross-sectional image, the second cross-sectional image being a cross-sectional image before being acquired and intersecting with the first cross-sectional image. | 07-02-2015 |
| 20150287189 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to some embodiments, an image processor includes an image acquirer, a first image generator, a point acquirer, a detector, a calculator and a determiner. The detector detects a second plurality of points in the first perspective images or the second perspective images corresponding to the first plurality of points. The calculator calculates, based on at least the first plurality of points and the second plurality of points, a difference in position of the target between when the first perspective images were captured and when the second perspective images were generated. The determiner determines whether or not the difference is in a range. If the difference is not in the range, then the first image generator generates updated ones of the second perspective images from an updated one of the volume data, which is different by the difference from a previous one of the volume data. | 10-08-2015 |
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| 20140334708 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND X-RAY CT APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a generator, a selector, a first detector, and a second detector. The generator generates a group of frames corresponding to reconstructed images that correspond to a plurality of heartbeat phases of a heart. The selector specifies a corresponding frame that corresponds to a specific heartbeat phase from among the group of frames. The a first detector detects a boundary of the heart in the corresponding frame. The second detector detects a boundary of the heart in the frames other than the corresponding frame, by using the detected boundary in the corresponding frame. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20150018595 | TREATMENT SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE AND TREATMENT METHOD - According to an embodiment, a treatment system includes a plurality of first radiators, a plurality of detectors, a determiner, and a controller. Each of the first radiators irradiates a radioactive beam to a subject. Each of the detectors detects a radioactive beam transmitted through the subject and generates an image based on the detected radioactive beam. The determiner determines whether an object in the subject is included in a first region using a given image that is one of the images. The controller controls the first radiators so that, when the object is not included in the first region, a smaller amount of radioactive beams is irradiated per unit time than when the object is included in the first region. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150045605 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RADIOTHERAPY SYSTEM - A medical image processing apparatus includes: a receiver which receives target image data that is including a first perspective image and a second perspective image, photographing an object from different directions; a first acquirer which acquires positional information of a specified point on the first perspective image; a second acquirer which acquires positional information of a candidate point on the second perspective image, the candidate point corresponding to the specified point; and a generator which generates a first enlarged image obtained by enlarging a part of the first perspective image neighboring the specified point and a second enlarged image obtained by enlarging a part of the second perspective image neighboring the candidate point. | 02-12-2015 |
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| 20110006634 | BRUSHLESS MOTOR - A stator includes an annular core back portion, a plurality of teeth extending radially outward from an outer circumference of the core back portion, and coils. A cylindrical portion of a housing includes a contact portion and a coming-off preventing portion arranged above the contact portion on an outer circumference of the cylindrical portion. The core back portion includes a small-diameter opening defining portion and a large-diameter opening defining portion arranged above the small-diameter opening defining portion. The cylindrical portion is arranged radially inward of the core back portion. The stator is held by the cylindrical portion with a lower surface of the core back portion arranged in contact with the contact portion and an upper surface of the small-diameter opening defining portion arranged in contact with the coming-off preventing portion. A bearing member is arranged radially inside the large-diameter opening defining portion and above the coming-off preventing portion. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20160111940 | CEILING FAN MOTOR AND CEILING FAN - A ceiling fan motor includes a shaft, a stator, an upper motor cover, a bearing unit, a lower motor cover, a rotor magnet, and a circuit board arranged below the stator. The upper motor cover is a ferromagnetic body. The circuit board includes a board body, a rotation sensor attached to the board body and opposed to the rotor magnet in an up-down direction, and a circuit component larger in mass than the rotation sensor. If there is defined an imaginary line which is orthogonal, when seen in the up-down direction, to a line interconnecting the rotation sensor and the center axis and which passes through the shaft, a gravity center of the circuit board is positioned in one of two areas of the circuit board divided by the imaginary line, which differs from the other area where the rotation sensor exists. | 04-21-2016 |
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| 20090086592 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS SWITCHING FOCUS POINT BETWEEN LAYERS - A focus jump technique enables focus control on recording layers of a disc in such a manner that its effect is not absorbed by disturbance or a variation in the movement speed of an objective lens. The technique involves monitoring level of a focus error signal and rejecting noise from the error signal. A speed sensor detects movement speed of an objective lens; and a speed control circuit generates a voltage for controlling the objective lens, based on the detected movement speed. Movement speed of the objective lens is detected during focus jump, a corresponding lens drive signal is generated, and an end position is determined from behavior of the error signal immediately before the end of the jump. A focus control is pulled, from a focus point corresponding to one recording layer, into a focus point corresponding to another recording layer forcibly in a stable manner. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090310458 | OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, SIGNAL PROCESSING LSI, AND LASER DRIVER - The present invention aims to, when recording pulse information are transmitted to a laser driver lying over a pickup through an optical disk, reduce the number of transmission paths or lines from a conventional transmission method and avoid degradation of recording performance due to transmission path characteristics upon fastening of a recording speed thereby to provide stable recording performance at high-speed recording. The invention of the present application reduces the number of transmission signals by encoding multi-level laser pulse information transmitted by the laser driver. Further, gray codes are used for encoding to reduce constraints of skew between bits. Furthermore, encoding is executed using each state transition and the state transitions are switched according to each recording mark and space, thereby reducing the occurrence of a short pulse on each transmission path. In addition, the presence or absence of the encoding is switched to enable signal transmission, thereby making it possible to make compatible adaptation to complex laser pulse information and adaptation to high-speed recording. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20110044144 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS SWITCHING FOCUS POINT BETWEEN LAYERS - A focus jump technique enables focus control on recording layers of a disc in such a manner that its effect is not absorbed by disturbance or a variation in the movement speed of an objective lens. The technique involves monitoring level of a focus error signal and rejecting noise from the error signal. A speed sensor detects movement speed of an objective lens; and a speed control circuit generates a voltage for controlling the objective lens, based on the detected movement speed. Movement speed of the objective lens is detected during focus jump, a corresponding lens drive signal is generated, and an end position is determined from behavior of the error signal immediately before the end of the jump. A focus control is pulled, from a focus point corresponding to one recording layer, into a focus point corresponding to another recording layer forcibly in a stable manner. | 02-24-2011 |
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| 20090262613 | OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS AND DISK IDENTIFICATION METHOD - A highly reliable optical disk apparatus adapted to record and reproduce the information in and from plural types of optical disks is disclosed. An acquisition unit acquires a predetermined signal from the reflected light obtained by radiating a predetermined laser on each of the optical disks. A comparator compares the waveform of the signal acquired by the acquisition unit with the comparative waveform of the signal stored in a memory beforehand and obtained from the radiated laser corresponding to the optical disk. An identification unit identifies the type of the optical disk based on the result of comparison by the comparator. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100080104 | Information recording/reproducing apparatus, apparatus for manufacturing optical information recording medium, and optical information recording medium - An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus equipped with a mechanism for moving an optical pickup to an arbitrary radial position of an optical information recording medium using holography. A total sum signal of signals is generated at the photodetector for receiving signals reproduced from the optical information recording medium, and a radial position of the pickup is obtained from the number of pulses in the total sum signal to thereby allow the pickup to move to an arbitrary radial position. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100232275 | DISK APPARATUS - Stable interlayer jump is realized by judging whether a signal is a false signal caused by noises, stray light, or interference of an adjacent layer or a true FE signal. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20110164486 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An optical disc apparatus for use of an optical disc including a plurality of recording layers sets an amount of correction of spherical aberration for each of the recording layers of the disc during a focus sweep. A photodetector portion produces a signal in response to returned light for each of the recording layers. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20120250481 | DISC DEVICE - Provided is an optical disc drive device which stably controls an actuator of an optical pickup, by individually controlling an optical spot when following the guide track and an optical spot when recording/reproducing information on/from each recording layer. An optical spot when following the guide track and an optical spot when recording/reproducing information on/from each recording layer are individually controlled. At this time, the optical spot exclusive for the track and the optical spot exclusive for the recording/reproducing are formed on an optical disc. | 10-04-2012 |
| 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 |
| 20150294682 | OPTICAL INFORMATION APPARATUS - In order to correct signal-to-noise ratio degradation caused by a position error of an aperture filter relative to a signal beam and ensure a high recording signal quality in an optical information apparatus using holography, an optical detection system capable of conducting position adjustment of the aperture filter by using the signal beam is provided and the aperture filter is positioned with high precision. | 10-15-2015 |
