Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110255185 | DRIVE UNIT - A drive unit includes a lens frame configured to support a lens, a movable body located outside the lens and configured to be movable with the lens frame, and a vibratory actuator configured to drive the movable body. The vibratory actuator includes an actuator main body contacting the movable body, an opposite member provided at a position which is opposite to the actuator main body so that the movable body is sandwiched between the actuator main body and the opposite member, and a connecting member configured to connect the actuator main body and the opposite member and to bias them toward the movable body. The connecting member is not provided at a side of the movable body where the lens frame is provided, but is provided at an opposite side of the movable body to the side where the lens frame is provided, as viewed in the optical direction. | 10-20-2011 |
20120236182 | CAMERA SYSTEM, CAMERA BODY, AND LENS UNIT - A camera system includes a lens unit, a mount, a camera body, and a control unit. The lens unit includes at least one lens unit operation portion and changes the magnification of an optical image electrically. The mount supports removably the lens unit. The camera body includes at least one camera body operation portion. The control unit controls the lens unit so as to change the magnification of an optical image electrically in response to either one of the operation of the camera body operation portion or the operation of the lens unit operation portion. The control unit controls the lens unit so as to execute an operation that is different from the operation which changes the magnification of an optical image, in response to the other of the operation of the camera body operation portion or the operation of the lens unit operation portion. | 09-20-2012 |
20130021687 | LENS TUBE - A lens barrel is provided that includes an optical system, an actuator, a plurality of interface units, and a controller. The lens barrel supports the optical system that includes an optical axis and a zooming lens group. The optical system is configured to adjust the focal distance of the lens barrel. The actuator is configured to drive the zooming lens group so as to adjust the focal distance. The plurality of interface units includes a first interface unit and a second interface unit. Each of the first interface unit and the second interface unit accepts an adjustment operation from a user. The controller is configured to instruct the actuator to change the focal distance when the first interface unit and the second interface unit each accept an adjustment operation. The first interface unit and the second interface unit are circumferentially disposed around the periphery of the lens barrel. | 01-24-2013 |
20130027789 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel is provided that includes an optical system and a plurality of interface units. The optical system includes an optical axis and a focal distance. The focal distance is configured to be adjusted by the optical system. The plurality of interface units includes a first interface unit and a second interface unit. Each of the first interface unit and the second interface unit are configured to accept from a user an operation to adjust the focal distance. Each of the first interface unit and the second interface unit are configured to be operated around the optical axis. | 01-31-2013 |
20130033761 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE - The imaging device includes a lens barrel, which itself includes a first frame, a second frame rotatably supported by the first frame, a lens mount including a contact face that comes into contact with the main body of a camera body, and a linking portion for linking the lens mount and the first frame on the outside of the contact face, with at least part of the second frame being disposed between the linking portion and the contact face along the optical axis direction; and an imaging element for converting an optical image formed by the lens barrel into image data. | 02-07-2013 |
20130033770 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE - The lens barrel includes a first frame, a second frame configured to be rotatably supported by the first frame, a drive actuator that is disposed on the inside of the second frame, and a transmission mechanism disposed on the inside of the second frame and configured to transmit the drive force of the drive actuator to the second frame. The imaging device includes the above-mentioned lens barrel and an imaging element that converts an optical image formed by this lens barrel into image data. | 02-07-2013 |
20130077949 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE - The lens barrel includes a first frame, a second frame, a drive actuator, and a transmission mechanism. The second frame includes a substantially cylindrical main body and a gear portion. The gear portion is disposed on the inner peripheral part of the main body. The gear portion transmits the drive force of the drive actuator via the transmission mechanism. The transmission mechanism includes a first transmission gear portion that engages with the gear portion, and a second transmission gear portion that is provided coaxially with the first transmission gear portion. The transmission mechanism includes a clutch. The clutch can temporarily disengage the transmission of the drive force between the first transmission gear portion and the second transmission gear portion. The imaging device includes the above-mentioned lens barrel and an imaging element that converts an optical image formed by the above-mentioned lens barrel into image data. | 03-28-2013 |
20130100540 | LENS BARREL - The lens barrel includes a first frame, a second frame, a drive actuator, and a transmission mechanism that transmits the drive force of the drive actuator. The second frame includes a substantially cylindrical main body, a gear portion, and cam grooves that include an inflection point in the range in which the zoom ratio of the optical system is varied. The transmission mechanism includes a first transmission gear portion that engages with a gear, a second transmission gear portion that is provided coaxially with the first transmission gear portion, and a clutch between the first transmission gear portion and the second transmission gear portion. The clutch temporarily disengages the drive force of the drive actuator transmitted to the first transmission gear portion, only with respect to rotation in one direction. | 04-25-2013 |
20130141378 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An exemplary electronic device includes: a display section for displaying display information; a touch panel arranged on a display surface side of the display section; a display information position detection section for detecting a position of the display information displayed; a display control section for controlling a movement of the display information based on an operation by a user on the touch panel; a vibrating section for vibrating the touch panel; and a vibration control section for controlling a vibration pattern of the vibrating section. When the user operates the display information on the touch panel, the display control section controls the movement of the display information based on the position of the display information detected by the display information position detection section, and the vibration control section controls the vibrating section in association with the movement of the display information. | 06-06-2013 |
20130187879 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device | 07-25-2013 |
20130187881 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device presents, to the user, a realistic control feel in response to a complicated operation such as an operation using multiple fingers. An electronic device | 07-25-2013 |
20130222339 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The electronic device | 08-29-2013 |
20130265268 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device | 10-10-2013 |
20130307803 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device | 11-21-2013 |
20130307804 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device | 11-21-2013 |
20130314355 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An exemplary electronic device includes: a housing; a display configured to display an operation area; a touch screen panel configured to detect at least an input operation made by a user to the operation area; a first vibrator configured to vibrate at least one of the display and the touch screen panel; a second vibrator configured to vibrate the housing; and a vibration controller configured to control vibration of the first vibrator and the second vibrator in accordance with the input operation of the user to the touch screen panel. | 11-28-2013 |
20140118575 | CAMERA SYSTEM - A camera system includes a lens unit, a mount, a camera body, and a control unit. The lens unit includes at least one lens unit operation portion and changes the magnification of an optical image electrically. The mount supports removably the lens unit. The camera body includes at least one camera body operation portion. The control unit controls the lens unit so as to change the magnification of an optical image electrically in response to either one of the operation of the camera body operation portion or the operation of the lens unit operation portion. The control unit controls the lens unit so as to execute an operation that is different from the operation which changes the magnification of an optical image, in response to the other of the operation of the camera body operation portion or the operation of the lens unit operation portion. | 05-01-2014 |
20140300567 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic device | 10-09-2014 |
20150022903 | LENS BARREL - Provided is a lens barrel whose diameter can be reduced. The lens barrel includes a rotary frame having a gear on an inner peripheral surface, and a retracting lens frame which holds a retracting lens configured to retract from an optical axis along with rotation of the rotary frame. A position where the retracting lens retracts is where the gear of the rotary frame is located when the retracting lens is positioned on the optical axis. The rotary frame includes a first cam groove on an outer peripheral surface, and a second cam groove on the inner peripheral surface. The lens barrel also includes a first lens frame having a first cam follower which is mounted on the first cam groove, and a second lens frame having a second cam follower which is mounted on the second cam groove. The retracting lens frame is held by the second lens frame. | 01-22-2015 |
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20090083748 | PROGRAM EXECUTION DEVICE - A resource information acquiring unit acquires processor resource information from outside. A program associating unit associates the processor resource information with a program. A processor resource allocating unit allocates processor resources to the program in accordance with the processor resource information when the program is executed. | 03-26-2009 |
20090198901 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A computer system includes a main memory for storing a large amount of data, a cache memory that can be accessed at a higher speed than the main memory, a memory replacement controller for controlling the replacement of data between the main memory and the cache memory, and a memory controller capable of allocating one or more divided portions of the cache memory to each process unit. The memory replacement controller stores priority information for each process unit, and replaces lines of the cache memory based on a replacement algorithm taking the priority information into consideration, wherein the divided portions of the cache memory are allocated so that the storage area is partially shared between process units, after which the allocated amounts of cache memory are changed automatically. | 08-06-2009 |
20110209157 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION APPARATUS - A resource allocation apparatus according to the present invention includes a system information acquisition unit configured to acquire program congestion pattern information indicating a group of programs executed concurrently on a system; and a resource allocation pattern determination unit configured to generate a plurality of resource allocation patterns for allocating the resource to a plurality of programs included in the group of programs indicated in the program congestion pattern information, and to calculate the total of amount of processing needed to execute the programs when the resource is allocated to the programs included in the group of programs by the generated resource allocation patterns, then to determine an optimal resource allocation pattern among the generated resource allocation patterns as a resource allocation pattern for the programs included in the group of programs based on the calculated total amount of processing. | 08-25-2011 |
20110276787 | MULTITHREAD PROCESSOR, COMPILER APPARATUS, AND OPERATING SYSTEM APPARATUS - A multithread processor for executing, in parallel, instructions included in a plurality of threads includes: a calculating group including a plurality of calculators each of which is for executing an instruction; instruction grouping units which classify, for each thread, the instructions included in the thread into groups each of which includes instructions that are simultaneously executable by the calculators; a thread selecting unit which selects, per execution cycle of the multithread processor, a thread including instructions to be issued to the calculators, from among the threads, by controlling execution frequency for executing the instructions included in the threads; and an instruction issuing unit which issues, to the calculators, per execution cycle of the multithread processor, the instructions classified into each of the groups and being among the instructions included in the thread selected by the thread selecting unit. | 11-10-2011 |
20120177348 | MEDIA PROCESSING METHOD AND MEDIA PROCESSING PROGRAM - A media processing method for performing media processing by causing a processor to execute plural program modules, includes controlling input/output of media data, determining at least one call time, and calling a second program module in a second layer at each determined call time, by executing a first program module in a first layer, the first layer being higher than the second layer. The method further includes causing the processor to perform data conversion on the media data, by executing the second program module in the second layer, the data conversion being part of the media processing. | 07-12-2012 |
20130031310 | COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer system includes: a main storage unit, a processing executing unit sequentially executing processing to be executed on virtual processors; a level-1 cache memory shared among the virtual processors; a level-2 cache memory including storage areas partitioned based on the number of the virtual processors, the storage areas each (i) corresponding to one of the virtual processors and (ii) holding the data to be used by the corresponding one of the virtual processors; a context memory holding a context item corresponding to the virtual processor; a virtual processor control unit saving and restoring a context item of one of the virtual processors; a level-1 cache control unit; and a level-2 cache control unit. | 01-31-2013 |
20130318544 | PROGRAM GENERATION DEVICE, PROGRAM GENERATION METHOD, PROCESSOR DEVICE, AND MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM - A program generation device for generating, from a source program, machine programs corresponding to a plurality of processors having different instruction sets and sharing a memory, the program generation device including: a switch point determination unit for determining a switch point in the source program; a switchable-program generation unit for generating a switchable program for each processor so that a data structure of the memory is commonly shared at a switch point among the plurality of processors; and a switch decision process insertion unit for inserting into the switchable programs a switch program for stopping at the switch point a switchable program being executed by and corresponding to a first processor, and causing a second processor to execute, from the switch point, a switchable program corresponding to the second processor. | 11-28-2013 |