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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8094540 | Optical pickup and optical device An optical pickup includes a first laser beam light source 1 for emitting a light flux of a first wavelength, a diffraction grating 5 and an optical device 6 having a second laser beam light source 7 for emitting a light flux of a second ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8077590 | Information recording carrier and information reproducing apparatus for the same Plural grooves or lands formed in an information recording carrier include at least a wobbling region and data is recorded wobblingly in this wobbling region by phase shift modulation while recorded digitally with a single or multiple waves as a channel bit. ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8063861 | Image display unit An active matrix type display panel is a hold type display panel which has a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, and holds and displays an electrical signal pixel by pixel for a predetermined time. A frame rate conversion circuit converts a video signal h... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8013930 | Imaging apparatus and exposure control method used for the same An imaging apparatus includes a shutter drive section, an aperture blade drive section, an ND filter drive section, a light intensity detection section, a memory, and a control section. The shutter drive section opens and closes a shutter for a light receiving surfa... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005347 | Recording/reproducing device capable of avoiding or reducing various malfunctions caused by dropping A drop sensor detects a drop of a device. When the drop of the device is detected, a sub CPU allows a counter to count a drop time. When the device drops for a predetermined time or more, the sub CPU controls a regulator so that the regulator forcibly disconnects an... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7941030 | Audio/video recording apparatus, recording method, playback apparatus, playback method, playback program, and recording program At the time of recording, only an edition point is recorded (step S4). At the time of reproduction, overlap time (A_overlap) between an audio frame to be reproduced last and an audio frame to be reproduced first, each including a video connection point is cal... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7761868 | Information recording method and optical disk A once-recordable optical disk has a data recorded area in which application software for creating an information group and a first file system are prerecorded. The application software is readable with the first file system and is used to select desired ones from a... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7751301 | Information recording carrier and information reproducing apparatus for the same Plural grooves or lands formed in an information recording carrier include at least a wobbling region and data is recorded wobblingly in this wobbling region by phase shift modulation while recorded digitally with a single or multiple waves as a channel bit. ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7677355 | Speaker diaphragms, manufacturing methods of the same, and dynamic speakers On one surface of a piece of wooden sheet, a cloth or paper is adhered to make an adhered sheet. An approximately V-shaped notch is provided on the adhered sheet, the adhered sheet is wetted to be softened, and a lubricant which acts to keep water is impregnated the... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7647388 | Control information transmission method, intermediary server, and controlled device A controlled device (12) sends a signal to a intermediary server (21) at a predetermined time interval, and the intermediary server (21) receives the signal from the controlled device (12) with a private address allocated by a router (... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7629959 | Controller for electronic appliance A controller controls an electronic appliance. The electronic appliance has a display. The controller employs a video camera to photograph an image of a user and converts the image into a mirror image. The controller generates an operational image including operatio... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7542385 | Optical disk unit and aberration correcting method used for this An optical disk unit capable of correcting a spherical aberration without using special patterns is provided. Also provided is an aberration correcting method used for such an optical disk unit. An objective lens 7 is moved along an optical axis by a predeter... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7528810 | Display with multiple emission layers A display has light emitting elements, a first driver, a power source, and a second driver. Each light emitting element includes “n” emission layers formed one over another to form a color dot in each pixel. The first driver drives the emission layers to emit li... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7480013 | Projection type display apparatus One of preferred embodiments of a projection type display apparatus comprises a housing including a first surface inclined at an angle of 45 degrees with respect to an optical axis of the incoming light, a second surface, and a third surface. The second and the thir... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7408863 | Digital signal processing method, data recording and reproducing apparatus, and data recording medium that are resistant to burst errors With two consecutive product-coded ECC blocks, EB1 and EB2, as a set, the rth row of first ECB block EB1 is followed by the rth row of second ECC block EB2 in such a way that the first row of first ECC block EB1 is followed by the ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400321 | Image display unit An active matrix type display panel is a hold type display panel which has a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, and holds and displays an electrical signal pixel by pixel for a predetermined time. A frame rate conversion circuit converts a video signal h... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7391709 | Information recording carrier and method of reproducing the same An information recording carrier in one mode has minute pattern including plural grooves or lands formed in parallel and adjacent each other and comprises a supporting body having the minute pattern, a recording layer formed on the minute pattern, and a light transm... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391391 | Display apparatus A display apparatus divides each frame period of an input image signal into a plurality of subframes and selects the subframes according to a gray-scale level of the input signal, to display a gray-scale image. The display apparatus alternately employs two sets of t... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388633 | Reflective liquid crystal display A reflective LCD has first and second light blocking metal films that are formed one upon another between a semiconductor substrate and reflective pixel electrodes with an insulating film being laid on and under each of the light blocking metal films, to block part ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7387257 | Card recording apparatus and a card storage cassette Regarding a card storage cassette for use in a card recording apparatus in which a plurality of cards are stacked vertically with their face maintained substantially horizontal, the present invention provides in one embodiment a card recording apparatus and its card... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7359596 | Micro lens array and a method of manufacturing a replication mold for the same The micro-lens array in which a plural of convexly-protruded micro-lens are closely arranged two-dimensionally and a plural of convex sub-lenses having a curvature-radius smaller than that of the micro-lens are protrusively formed on the surface of each micro-lens h... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350927 | Image display apparatus The present invention includes a reflection portion which light-modulates three primary color lights by three rectangular reflective liquid crystal light modulators, then color-combine the light-modulated lights and reflects the resultant light; and a projection len... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350926 | Light source apparatus and an image display apparatus A light source apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention is comprised of a light emitting tube having a first electrode in one end and a second electrode in the other end thereof, the tube having both ends closed, a concave-shaped reflector havi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7336903 | Optical wireless transmission apparatus There is disclosed an optical wireless transmission apparatus in which a pilot light emitting section of a receiving/emitting section sends a pilot light in a wavelength region of 930 nm to 960 nm to a target apparatus, and a light receiving device having a light re... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336321 | Video signal processor A simplified Y/C separation circuit separates a composite video signal into a first luminance signal and a first color signal without subjecting the composite video signal to three-dimensional processing. A color demodulation circuit color-demodulates the first colo... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336288 | Sampling rate converting system and filtering method A high-definition luminance signal Y1 is converted into a luminance signal Y2 of a rate (subpixel sampling rate) corresponding to the number of subpixels in the horizontal direction on a display by a subpixel number-of-pixel converter. The luminance si... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7310118 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus has a hold-type display panel composed of a matrix of pixels each holding an electric signal for a predetermined period. In the image display apparatus, an intermediate value detector provides an intermediate value signal from adjacent two... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7290268 | Disc drive apparatus with tray formed of optically transparent material A disc drive apparatus according to the present invention has a tray formed of an optically transparent material and has disc receiving portions. The tray is movable in an ejection and a retraction direction with respect to a casing. A light source is mounted inside... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289093 | Liquid crystal display In a liquid crystal display (LCD), a division point memory stores positional information about pixel division points that regularly divide X pixels and Y pixels on a display screen into sections. A gradation correction value memory stores gradation correction values... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7238933 | Light detecting apparatus A light detecting apparatus has a two-axis deflector such as a two-axis mirror capable of controlling the deflection of a light beam. The apparatus realizes a sure and speedy light beam search operation without increasing deflecting frequencies of the two-axis defle... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7206275 | Optical pickup device An aberration correction element is disposed between first to third laser light sources and an objective lens, first and second laser lights emitted from the first and second laser light sources are incident upon the aberration correction element in the form of para... | 04/17/2007 |
