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20100281903 | EVAPORATOR AND COOLING DEVICE - Service life of the compressor is extended. The evaporator is provided with the housing having the suction port connectable to the suction portion of the compressor in order to evaporate at least part of a droplet or misty working fluid in the housing by a suction effect of the compressor through the suction port, comprising a filter installed in the housing, the filter dividing a space in the housing into the first space for generating the droplet or misty working fluid and the second space for communicating with the suction port, the filter being inclined away from the suction port as advancing upward, and the filter transmitting therethrough vapor resulting from evaporation of the droplet or misty working fluid while capturing the droplet or misty working fluid. | 11-11-2010 |
20100293992 | CONDENSER AND COOLING DEVICE - In the condenser provided with two of the degassing chambers separated by a cooling fluid, communication between the degassing chambers is prevented even if a pressure difference is increased between the degassing chambers. The condenser has the housing having the vapor inflow port connectable to the discharge portion of the compressor, the first degassing chamber, in the housing, communicating with the vapor inflow port, and the second degassing chamber, in the housing, arranged above the first degassing chamber across the partition portion, and the passing portion for permitting a cooling fluid to flow from the second degassing chamber to the first degassing chamber, wherein the first degassing chamber is separated from the second degassing chamber by the cooling fluid in the passing portion, and the passing portion has a pressure head space for containing a specified volume of cooling fluid so as to absorb a variation in a pressure difference between the first degassing chamber and the second degassing chamber. | 11-25-2010 |
20110174009 | COMPRESSOR AND REFRIGERATING MACHINE - A compressor and a refrigerating machine which enable an easy disposal of a lubricant, are friendly to the natural environment, and have simple configurations, are provided. | 07-21-2011 |
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20110118019 | GAME DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING GAME DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - To provide a game device capable of allowing a user to predict whether or not the user is to operate a game character if a state of the game character is changed from a first state of being operated by a computer to a second state of being operated by any one of a plurality of users. A storage section ( | 05-19-2011 |
20110124386 | GAME DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING GAME DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - To provide a game device for allowing a user to concentrate on an operation of one or more specific player characters and also capable of reducing a period of time with the user being left rarely able to be useful in a match. According to the present invention, a game of a sport match carried out between a first team operated by the user and a second team is carried out. A participating player selecting section ( | 05-26-2011 |
20130337877 | GAME DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING GAME DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - A game device for carrying out a game of a sport match between a first team operated by the user and a second team. The game device includes a participating player selecting section that selects a plurality of player characters as operation target candidates from among a plurality of player characters belonging to the first team and participating in a match, based on an operation of a user, an operation target player switching section that switches, in the match, a user's operation target among the plurality of player characters selected by the operation target candidate player selecting section, and a player control section that causes, in the match, a player character which is the user's operation target to act, based on an operation by the user. | 12-19-2013 |
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20130169936 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE, PROJECTION DEVICE, AND PROJECTION-TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An illumination device includes: an optical element which including a hologram recording medium including a first zone and a second zone and can reproduce an image of a scattering plate; an irradiation device which irradiates the optical element with a coherent light beam such that the light beam is allowed to scan the hologram recording medium; and a polarization control unit provided on an optical path of the light beam to an illuminated zone. The light beams incident on respective positions of the hologram recording medium are allowed to reproduce the image superimposed on the illuminated zone. The polarization control unit controls polarization of the light beams such that the light beam incident on the first zone to travel toward the illuminated zone and the light beam incident on the second zone to travel toward the illuminated zone are configured with different polarization components. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169940 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE, PROJECTION DEVICE, AND PROJECTION-TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is an illumination device which illuminates an illuminated zone with a plurality of coherent light beams having mutually different wavelength ranges, so that it is possible to allow speckles to be inconspicuous. A illumination device is configured to include an optical element including a hologram recording medium and an irradiation device which illuminates the optical element with a plurality of coherent light beams having mutually different wavelength ranges so as to allow a first and second coherent light beams having different wavelength ranges to scan the hologram recording medium of the optical element. The first coherent light beams incident on respective positions of the hologram recording medium are allowed to reproduce an image superimposed on an illuminated zone, and the second coherent light beams incident on the respective positions of the hologram recording medium are allowed to reproduce an image superimposed on the illuminated zone. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169941 | PROJECTION DEVICE AND PROJECTION-TYPE VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided are a projection device and a projection-type video display device capable of displaying a plurality of videos, allowing speckles to be inconspicuous, and miniaturizing an optical system. A projection device includes an optical element including light diffusion elements capable of diffusing light, an irradiation device configured to irradiate the optical element with illumination light beams, each illumination light beam scanning the corresponding light diffusion element, spatial light modulators, each spatial light modulator being illuminated with illumination light beam which is incident from the irradiation device to each light diffusion element to be diffused, and projection optical systems, each projection optical system projecting modulation image obtained on each spatial light modulator on corresponding screen. The illumination light beam, which is incident to each position of each light diffusion element to be diffused, overlappedly illuminates on corresponding spatial light modulator. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170005 | PROJECTION DEVICE AND PROJECTION-TYPE VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE - A projection device includes an optical element including a hologram recording medium where information is multiplexedly recorded in each position so as to allow a coherent light beam to be diffused to a plurality of regions, an irradiation device configured to irradiate the optical element with the coherent light beam so as to allow the coherent light beam to scan the hologram recording medium, spatial light modulators configured to be illuminated with the coherent light beam which is incident from the irradiation device to the hologram recording medium to be diffused to the plurality of regions, and projection optical systems, each projection optical system projecting modulation image obtained on each spatial light modulator on corresponding screen. The coherent light beam, which is incident to each position of the hologram recording medium to be diffused, is illuminated on a plurality of the spatial light modulators. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170006 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE, PROJECTION APPARATUS AND PROJECTION-TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An illumination device has an optical device and an irradiation unit. The irradiation unit has a light source emitting a coherent light beam, and a scanning device capable of adjusting a reflection angle of the coherent light beam emitted from the light source. The light source has light sources emitting a plurality of coherent light beams having an identical wavelength range, the hologram recording medium has a recording area to be scanned with each of a plurality of coherent light beams reflected by the scanning device, and the recording area has an interference fringe that diffracts an incident coherent light beam. The optical device uses the plurality of coherent light beams diffracted by the interference fringe of the recording area so that each of the coherent light beams diffracted by the hologram recording medium is superimposed on at least one portion to reproduce the image of the reference member. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170007 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE, PROJECTION APPARATUS AND PROJECTION-TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An optical device | 07-04-2013 |
20130242606 | PLANE ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND BACKLIGHT APPARATUS - A plane illumination apparatus has an optical device, an irradiation unit to irradiate the coherent light beams to the optical device. The irradiation unit makes the coherent light beams scan the surface of the optical device by changing propagation directions of the coherent light beams, the light guide plate comprises a light take-out portion specific zone to take out coherent light beams to outside while making coherent light beams propagate between a first end face on which coherent light beams from the optical device are incident and a second end face that is provided to face the first end face, and the specific zone is provided inside the light take-out portion or along the first end face, or along the second end face. | 09-19-2013 |
20130250269 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS - An exposure apparatus has an optical device configured to be capable of diffusing coherent light beams from respective points to the entire region of at least a specific zone, an irradiation unit configured to irradiate the coherent light beams to the optical device so that the coherent light beams scan a surface of the optical device, and a spatial light modulator that is provided at a location overlapped with the specific zone and illuminated by the illumination device. The irradiation unit makes the coherent light beams scan the surface of the optical device by changing propagation directions of the coherent light beams, and coherent light beams modulated by the spatial light modulator are guided to a surface of a photosensitive medium. | 09-26-2013 |
20130286683 | PLANE ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND BACKLIGHT APPARATUS - A plane illumination apparatus has an optical device, an irradiation unit, and a light guide plate. The irradiation unit makes the coherent light beams scan the surface of the optical device, the light guide plate comprises a light take-out portion to take out coherent light beams to outside while making coherent light beams propagate between a first end face on which coherent light beams from the optical device are incident and a second end face provided to face the first end face, the specific zone is provided inside the light take-out portion or along the first end face, or along the second end face, the light take-out surface is a third end face that is connected to the first and second end faces, and the irradiation unit is provided at a rear side of a fourth end face that is an opposite side to the light take-out surface. | 10-31-2013 |
20140043591 | PROJECTION APPARATUS AND PROJECTION CONTROL APPARATUS - A projection apparatus has an optical device configured to be capable of diffusing coherent light beams, an irradiation unit configured to irradiate the coherent light beams to the optical device so that the coherent light beams scan the optical device, a light modulator that is illuminated by coherent light beams incident on and diffused at respective points of the optical device from the irradiation unit, a projection optical system configured to project a modulated image generated by the light modulator onto a scattering plane, and an intermediate optical system provided between the optical device and the light modulator, configured to restrict an diffusion angle of coherent light beams diffused by the optical device. | 02-13-2014 |
20150085518 | PROJECTION DEVICE AND PROJECTION-TYPE VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided are a projection device and a projection-type video display device capable of displaying a plurality of videos, allowing speckles to be inconspicuous, and miniaturizing an optical system. A projection device includes an optical element including light diffusion elements capable of diffusing light, an irradiation device configured to irradiate the optical element with illumination light beams, each illumination light beam scanning the corresponding light diffusion element, spatial light modulators, each spatial light modulator being illuminated with illumination light beam which is incident from the irradiation device to each light diffusion element to be diffused, and projection optical systems, each projection optical system projecting modulation image obtained on each spatial light modulator on corresponding screen. The illumination light beam, which is incident to each position of each light diffusion element to be diffused, overlappedly illuminates on corresponding spatial light modulator. | 03-26-2015 |
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20100033779 | TRANSMISSION TYPE OPTICAL ELEMENT AND ANTI-FORGERY VOLUME HOLOGRAM - A transmission type optical element | 02-11-2010 |
20110043876 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - Parallel coherent light from the laser | 02-24-2011 |
20120044553 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - Coherent light from laser | 02-23-2012 |
20120257266 | TRANSMISSION TYPE OPTICAL ELEMENT AND ANTI-FORGERY VOLUME HOLOGRAM - A transmission type optical element comprising a first hologram having a first surface and a second surfaces and a second hologram having a third surface and a fourth surface. The first surface of the first hologram and the third surface of the second hologram are oppositely arranged. A first light beam having a first wavelength is made to enter the first hologram from the side of the second surface. It is transmitted through the first hologram and exits the first hologram from the side of the first surface. The light beam then enters the second hologram from the side of the third surface. It is diffracted by the second hologram and exits the second hologram from the side of the third surface. The light beam then enters the first hologram from the side of the first surface and is diffracted by the first hologram. | 10-11-2012 |
20130076857 | SCANNER DEVICE AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE OF OBJECT - A laser beam is reflected by a light beam scanning device and irradiated onto a hologram recording medium. On the hologram recording medium, an image of a linear scatter body is recorded as a hologram by using reference light that converges on a scanning origin. The light beam scanning device bends the laser beam at the scanning origin and irradiates the laser beam onto the hologram recording medium. At this time, by changing a bending mode of the laser beam with time, an irradiation position of the bent laser beam on the hologram recording medium is changed with time. Diffracted light from the hologram recording medium produces a reproduction image of the linear scatter body on a light receiving surface of the stage. When an object is placed on the light receiving surface, a line pattern is projected by hologram reproduction light, so that the projected image is captured and a three-dimensional shape of the object is measured. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077057 | PROJECTION-TYPE FOOTAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A laser beam generated by a laser light source is reflected by a light beam scanning device and irradiated onto a hologram recording medium. On the hologram recording medium, an image of a scatter plate is recorded as a hologram by using reference light that converges on a scanning origin. The light beam scanning device bends the laser beam at the scanning origin and irradiates the laser beam onto the hologram recording medium. At this time, scanning is carried out by changing a bending mode of the laser beam with time so that an irradiation position of the bent laser beam on the hologram recording medium changes with time. Regardless of an irradiation position of the beam, diffracted light from the hologram recording medium produces a reproduction image of the scatter plate on the spatial light modulator. The modulated image of the spatial light modulator is projected onto a screen by a projection optical system. | 03-28-2013 |
20130088763 | ILLUMINATING DEVICE USING COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE - A laser beam generated by a laser light source is reflected by a light beam scanning device, and irradiated onto a hologram recording medium. On the hologram recording medium, an image of a scatter plate is recorded as a hologram by using reference light that converges on a scanning origin. The light beam scanning device bends the laser beam at the scanning origin and irradiates it onto the hologram recording medium. At this time, scanning is carried out by changing the bending mode of the laser beam with time so that the irradiation position of the bent laser beam on the hologram recording medium changes with time. Regardless of the beam irradiation position, diffracted light from the hologram recording medium reproduces the same reproduction image of the scatter plate at the same position. An illumination spot in which speckles are reduced is formed on the light receiving surface of an illuminating object by the reproduction image of the hologram. | 04-11-2013 |
20140092321 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - To effectively suppress speckle noise generated when coherent light is used as a light source in a projection type image display device using an LCOS (Liquid Crystal On Silicon). | 04-03-2014 |
20140118702 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE, PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DEVICE - To provide an illumination device and a projection type image display device that illuminate an area to be illuminated (image formation area) under conditions where speckle noise is less noticeable. | 05-01-2014 |
20140177018 | PROJECTION-TYPE FOOTAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A laser beam (L | 06-26-2014 |
20140253989 | PROJECTION APPARATUS - A projection apparatus has an optical device capable of diffusing coherent light beams, an irradiation unit to irradiate coherent light beams to the optical device so that the coherent light beams scan the optical device, a light modulator to generate a modulated image using coherent light beams incident on and diffused at respective points of the optical device from the irradiation unit, and a projection optical system to project a modulated image generated by the light modulator onto a scattering plane. The light modulator has a plurality of micromirrors provided for each pixel, to switch a reflection angle of each coherent light beam from the optical device, and a reflection angle controller to control a timing of switching a reflection angle of each of the plurality of micromirrors so that the timing becomes irregular for each frame period that is a time unit for generating the modulated image. | 09-11-2014 |
20140340651 | PROJECTION APPARATUS AND HOLOGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - A projection apparatus has a hologram recording medium configured to be capable of diffusing coherent light beams, an irradiation unit configured to irradiate coherent light beams to the hologram recording medium so that the coherent light beams scan the hologram recording medium, a light modulator that is illuminated by coherent light beams incident on and diffused at respective points of the hologram recording medium from the irradiation unit, a projection optical system configured to project a modulated image generated by the light modulator onto a scattering plane, and an imaging optical system provided between the hologram recording medium and the light modulator, configured to converge the coherent light beams diffused at respective points of the hologram recording medium to illuminate the light modulator. | 11-20-2014 |
20140347715 | ILLUMINATING METHOD USING COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE - A laser beam (L | 11-27-2014 |
20140347858 | ILLUMINATING DEVICE USING COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE - A laser beam (L | 11-27-2014 |
20150036108 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE, PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DEVICE - To provide an illumination device and a projection type image display device that illuminate an area to be illuminated (image formation area) under conditions where speckle noise is less noticeable. | 02-05-2015 |
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20100073745 | HOLOGRAM FABRICATION PROCESS, AND HOLOGRAM FABRICATED BY THAT PROCESS - The invention provides a hologram fabrication process, characterized by comprising steps of fabricating a computer-generated hologram (CGH) having amplitude information and phase information recorded by computer operation on a given recording surface, irradiating the computer-generated hologram (CGH) with the first reconstructing illumination light ( | 03-25-2010 |
20100271674 | FORGERY PREVENTION MEDIUM - A forgery prevention medium includes a volume hologram layer on which an interference pattern is recorded after being exposed to an emitted laser beam; a digital watermarking information layer that can be interpreted by emitting a light beam with a predetermined wavelength; and an adherend that has the digital watermarking information layer and is attached to the volume hologram layer, wherein the information layer is of a different color from the volume hologram layer. | 10-28-2010 |
20100272313 | FORGERY PREVENTION MEDIUM - A forgery prevention medium includes a volume hologram layer on which an interference pattern is recorded after being exposed to at least an emitted laser beam; a digital watermarking information layer on which digital watermarking information is recorded; and a substrate film, and the information recorded on the digital watermarking information layer is interpreted by emitting a light beam that is different in one or more of the characteristics, incidence direction, incidence angle and incidence wavelength, from a hologram reproduction illumination beam used to reproduce an image recorded on the volume hologram layer. | 10-28-2010 |
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20110170003 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes the following elements. A generation unit generates a multiplexed video frame having a predetermined screen size. A dividing unit divides input audio data into audio data items each having samples for one frame period of the multiplexed video frame. A multiplexing unit multiplexes audio data items obtained by dividing each stream of input audio data and number-of-samples information representing the number of samples thereof. A processing unit processes audio data items multiplexed in a multiplexed video frame input from an input video port, and outputs from an output video port thereof a multiplexed video frame in which the resulting audio data items and the number-of-samples information thereof are multiplexed. An extraction unit extracts the audio data items multiplexed in the multiplexed video frame output from the processing unit in accordance with the number-of-samples information. A transmission unit outputs the extracted audio data items to outside. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173654 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes the following elements. A generation unit generates a multiplexed video frame having a predetermined screen size, and inserts first information regarding a configuration of the multiplexed video frame into the multiplexed video frame. A first multiplexing unit arranges one frame of input video data in the multiplexed video frame, multiplexes data of the frame so as to be transmitted as data of the multiplexed video frame corresponding to an arrangement position, and inserts second information regarding the arrangement position and third information regarding a format of the video data into a multiplexed video frame obtained after multiplexing. A processing unit extracts the data of the frame multiplexed in the multiplexed video frame obtained after multiplexing, which is input from an input video port, in accordance with the first information, the second information, and the third information, and performs processing on the extracted data. | 07-14-2011 |