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20090092027 | DATA RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE, CAMERA DEVICE, AND DATA RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD - A data recording and reproducing device includes: a light emitting element that generates light and emits the light toward an optical recording medium; a light emission control section that feedback-controls an emitted light quantity from the light emitting element; a light attenuating drive section that includes a light attenuating section, and inserts the light attenuating section into an emission path of the light when reproducing data from the optical recording medium and retracts the light attenuating section from the emission path when recording data onto the optical recording medium; and a shock detecting section that detects a shock of a magnitude causing the light attenuating drive section to switch between the insertion and retraction. When the shock detecting section detects the shock during data recording, the light emission control section lowers a control target value of the emitted light quantity from a value set at the time of shock detection. | 04-09-2009 |
20090231881 | Light-Emitting-Diode Backlight Device - A light-emitting-diode backlight device includes a light source substrate to which many light-emitting diodes are mounted, and a bottom chassis having the light source substrate mounted to a principal surface side of the bottom chassis. Illumination light from the light-emitting diodes is supplied to a display panel unit. A back-surface side of the bottom chassis is provided with a heat-dissipating unit making uniform a temperature distribution over the entire bottom chassis. The heat-dissipating unit includes a mounting plate, a heat pipe, and a radiating fin. The mounting plate is mounted to at least a high-temperature area of the bottom chassis. The heat pipe is disposed on both the high-temperature area and a low-temperature area, and is mounted to the mounting plate. The radiating fin is mounted to the low-temperature area, and connected to an end of the heat pipe. | 09-17-2009 |
20090238054 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE, TRACKING ERROR SIGNAL GENERATING CIRCUIT, TRACKING ERROR SIGNAL CORRECTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In a DPP-type tracking error signal (TE signal), an offset caused by the difference between the reflectance of a main-beam irradiated part and the reflectance of side-beam irradiated parts is appropriately compensated without individual normalization of an MPP signal and an SPP signal. An analog signal processing unit | 09-24-2009 |
20090316556 | DRIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A driving apparatus includes: a driving mechanism slider-driving a head including a first optical pickup and a second optical pickup, the first optical pickup and the second optical pickup having a same specification; a calculating mechanism performing predetermined calculation using a first slide-error signal obtained by filtering a signal from the first optical pickup and a second slide-error signal obtained by filtering a signal from the second optical pickup; and an outputting mechanism outputting a signal from the calculating means as a slider control signal for driving the driving mechanism. | 12-24-2009 |
20100008066 | Clip and backlight assembly - A clip provided by the present invention includes an insert portion that is inserted into an insertion hole formed in a flat-shaped chassis and that engages with the chassis, and a collar portion that is formed in a flat shape around the circumference of the insert portion. When the insert portion is inserted into the insertion hole, the collar portion and the chassis clamp at least one light emitting board that is positioned in contact with the chassis, and the thickness of the collar portion is set to be equal to or less than an amount of protrusion of a light emitting portion formed protrudingly from the light emitting board. | 01-14-2010 |
20110063962 | REPRODUCING DEVICE AND REPRODUCING METHOD - A reproducing device includes: a laser light irradiating section; a correction coefficient information retaining section; a correction coefficient obtaining section; a laser power setting section; and a driving signal outputting section. | 03-17-2011 |
20110116350 | RECORDING AND REPRODUCING UNIT AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD - A recording and reproducing unit includes: a first optical head having at least one route of laser beam irradiation system that irradiates an optical disc recording medium with a laser beam; a second optical head having plural routes of laser beam irradiation systems that irradiate the optical disc recording medium with laser beams; and a control part that performs control of, while allowing the laser beam irradiation system that the first optical head has to execute recording of information in the optical disc recording medium, allowing the plural laser beam irradiation systems that the second optical head has to execute simultaneous reproducing of the information recorded in the optical disc recording medium. | 05-19-2011 |
20110305122 | RECORDING DEVICE AND RECORDING METHOD - A recording device performs recording on an optical disc recording medium having a reference face having a reflection film provided with a position guide, and a recording layer provided at a position of a depth different from that of the reference face and performing information recording by mark forming according to irradiation of light. The recording device includes a light generating and irradiation unit, a recording unit, a tracking mechanism, a first tracking error signal generating unit, a second tracking error signal generating unit, a tracking servo control unit, and a control unit. | 12-15-2011 |
20120195177 | DISC DRIVE AND TRACKING SERVO PULL-IN METHOD - A disc drive includes an optical pickup that emits laser light to a predetermined layer position via an objective lens and detects reflection light of the laser light, a tracking mechanism that drives the objective lens in a tracking direction, a tracking error signal generation unit that generates a tracking error signal, based on a light detecting signal for the reflection light obtained by the optical pickup, a tracking servo control unit that performs a tracking servo control based on the tracking error signal, and a control unit that makes the tracking servo control unit perform tracking servo pull-in on the basis of a frequency measurement result of the tracking error signal and a recording or non-recording determination result based on the light detecting signal. | 08-02-2012 |
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20080316479 | Optical device - According to an aspect of the embodiment, an optical device has a mirror device having a plurality of mirrors which are able to move, and a mirror interface for adjusting light axis of the each input light in accordance with each position of the mirrors. | 12-25-2008 |
20090169212 | Optical transmission apparatus and optical communication system - An optical communication system, where in an optical transmission apparatus arranged on a transmission side of respective repeating sections, an OSC optical amplifier is provided on an OSC light optical path between from an OSC transmitter to a multiplexer, and the OSC optical amplifier is controlled so that the power of OSC light transmitted on the transmission path becomes a previously set target value. As a result the OSC light is amplified by a different amplifying device to that for the main signal lights at the time of transmission. Therefore even in the case where the span losses are large, OSC light can be reliably received by the optical transmission apparatus on the reception side. | 07-02-2009 |
20090237779 | OPTICAL AMPLIFIER - An optical amplifier includes a light source that outputs light having an intensity corresponding to a supplied driving power; a modulator that modulates the light output from the light source in response to an input modulation signal; a Raman amplifier that performs Raman amplification on the light modulated by the modulator using a highly-nonlinear medium; and a driver that supplies the driving power to drive the light source and inputs the modulation signal to the modulator. The driver starts inputting the modulation signal to the modulation unit before the intensity of the light propagating through the Raman amplifier exceeds an intensity value at which stimulated Brillouin scattering occurs in the Raman amplifier. | 09-24-2009 |
20100123949 | OPTICAL AMPLIFYING DEVICE - An optical amplifying device includes a first optical amplifier for amplifying signal light; a second optical amplifier serially connected with the first optical amplifier; an optical device for compensating deterioration of the signal light, the optical device arranged between the first optical amplifier and the second optical amplifier; a variable optical attenuator for attenuating the signal light, the variable optical attenuator arranged between the first optical amplifier and the second optical amplifier; a first automatic level controller for detecting a second amplifier output power and for controlling driving status of the second amplifier in a predetermined output power level; and a first automatic gain controller for detecting an input power of the second optical amplifier and an output power of the second optical amplifier, and for controlling an optical attenuation value of the variable optical attenuator. | 05-20-2010 |
20110019995 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - There is provided an optical transmission receiver includes an optical switch configured to switch between optical transmission channels, the optical transmission channels being gradually switched from one to the other, an optical amplifier configured to amplify a light propagating in the other of the optical transmission channels which is in a state subsequent to switching, and a switching speed controller configured to control a switching speed of the optical switch based on a level of the light amplified by the optical amplifier. | 01-27-2011 |
20120121256 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - An optical transmission device includes an extractor that extracts respective optical signals from optical signals multiplexed from a plurality of optical signals of different wavelengths, a detector that detects wavelengths of the extracted respective optical signals, a storage that stores the wavelengths of the detected respective optical signals, and a processor that is operative to derive trends in wavelength variation of the respective optical signals based on the detected respective optical signals and the respective optical signals stored in the storage, and determines that either one or both of the extractor and the detector cause the wavelengths to be varied when the trends in wavelength variation of two or more wavelengths are the same. | 05-17-2012 |
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20080227815 | Crystal of Indole Derivative Having Piperidine Ring and Process for Production Thereof - A crystal of 1-[1-[2-(7-methoxy-2,2-dimethyl-4-oxochroman-8-yl)-ethyl]piperidin-4-yl]-N-methyl-1H-indole-6-carboxamide fumarate which has peaks at chemical shifts of about 124.0 ppm and about 26.8 ppm in a | 09-18-2008 |
20090209755 | FUSED AMINODIHYDROTHIAZINE DERIVATIVES - A compound represented by the general formula: | 08-20-2009 |
20100093999 | NOVEL FUSED AMINODIHYDROTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE - A compound represented by the general formula: | 04-15-2010 |
20100317850 | CONDENSED AMINODIHYDROTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE - Disclosed is a compound represented by General formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate of the compound or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt, which has an inhibitory activity of the production of Aβ or a BACE1-inhibiting activity, and is therefore useful as a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for Aβ-induced neurodegenerative diseases typified by Alzheimer-type dementia. Wherein the ring A represents a C | 12-16-2010 |
20110207723 | NOVEL FUSED AMINODIHYDROTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE - A compound represented by the general formula (I): | 08-25-2011 |
20120094984 | FUSED AMINODIHYDROTHIAZINE DERIVATIVES - A compound represented by the general formula: | 04-19-2012 |
20130143907 | PYRAZOLOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVES - A compound and/or pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof represented by the formula (I) has PDE9 inhibitory action, so that the intracerebral cGMP concentration is anticipated to be elevated. The PDE9 inhibitory action and the increase in cGMP lead to the improvement of learning and memory behaviors, and the compound (I) has applicability as a therapeutic agent for cognitive dysfunctions in Alzheimer's disease. | 06-06-2013 |
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20130296352 | PYRAZOLOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVES - A compound and/or pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof represented by the formula (I) has PDE9 inhibitory action, so that the intracerebral cGMP concentration is anticipated to be elevated. The PDE9 inhibitory action and the increase in cGMP lead to the improvement of learning and memory behaviors, and the compound (I) has applicability as a therapeutic agent for cognitive dysfunctions in Alzheimer's disease. | 11-07-2013 |
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20080309776 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus having as a shooting mode a normal shooting mode and a continuous shooting mode for generating a plurality of pieces of image data, includes a setting unit operable to set a shooting mode, an imaging element having as a read mode a normal read mode for outputting image signals of all pixels and a mixing read mode for mixing and outputting an image signal of a predetermined pixel and image signals of peripheral pixels of the predetermined pixel, and a pixel mixing controller operable to control the read mode of the imaging element. The pixel mixing controller controls the imaging element to operate in the mixing read mode when the shooting mode is set to the continuous shooting mode. | 12-18-2008 |
20100013956 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE - An image capture device according to the present invention includes: an optical system for producing a subject's image; an imager with multiple photodiodes, which reads an electrical signal representing the intensity of light that has been incident on each photodiode from the photodiode, thereby generating an image signal representing the subject's image; a controller, which acquires sensitivity information by photometry in order to adjust the sensitivity of the imager to light and which selects one of multiple methods for reading the electrical signal from each photodiode according to the sensitivity information acquired; and a driver for driving the imager by the reading method selected. The multiple reading methods include a mixing reading method, by which the electrical signals supplied from the photodiodes are added together and then output. | 01-21-2010 |
20100177214 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device of the present invention includes a normal operation period and a focusing operation period; a CCD ( | 07-15-2010 |
20100177236 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device of the present invention includes a normal operation period and a focusing operation period and includes: a CCD ( | 07-15-2010 |
20110115971 | IMAGING DEVICE - The present invention provides an image capture device that can omit calculating a pulse signal that should otherwise be used to get a flash fired during a flash-ON sequential shooting operation. | 05-19-2011 |
20120062598 | IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS - The image displaying apparatus of the present invention provides a first display mode in which a first display region for one screen image is formed in a display screen, with the short side direction of the display screen aligned with the vertical direction; and a second display mode in which a first display region and a second display region for two screen images are formed in the display screen, with the long side direction of the display screen aligned with the vertical direction, and the first display region and the second display region formed such that they are arranged up and down. According to this configuration, when images are displayed in a double screen, each image can be displayed as large as possible. | 03-15-2012 |
20130050536 | COMPOUND-EYE IMAGING DEVICE - A compound-eye imaging device includes a first optical system that has a first zoom lens, a second optical system that has a second zoom lens, a first imaging sensor, a second imaging sensor, a zoom manipulation component, an interface, and a zoom controller. The first imaging sensor captures a subject image formed by the first optical system and outputs data. The second imaging sensor captures a subject image formed by the second optical system and outputs data. The zoom manipulation component is configured to be manipulated to drive either the first or the second zoom lens. The interface is configured to receive a particular input to select either the first or the second zoom lens as an active zoom lens. The particular input dictates manipulation of the zoom manipulation component. The zoom controller is configured to drive the active zoom lens according to how the zoom manipulation component is manipulated. | 02-28-2013 |
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20080248422 | RESIST COMPOSITION, METHOD OF FORMING RESIST PATTERN, COMPOUND AND ACID GENERATOR - A resist composition including a base component (A) and an acid-generator component (B), the acid-generator component (B) including an acid generator (B1) including a compound represented by general formula (b1-8) shown below (wherein R | 10-09-2008 |
20080311522 | RESIST COMPOSITION, METHOD OF FORMING RESIST PATTERN, COMPOUND AND ACID GENERATOR - A compound represented by general formula (b-14); and acid generator consisting of the compound; and a resist composition including a base component (A) which exhibits changed solubility in an alkali developing solution under action of acid and an acid-generator component (B) which generates acid upon exposure, the acid-generator component (B) including an acid generator (B1) consisting of a compound represented by general formula (b1-14): | 12-18-2008 |
20120164578 | RESIST COMPOSITION, METHOD OF FORMING RESIST PATTERN - A resist composition including a base component (A) which exhibits changed solubility in a developing solution under the action of acid, an acid generator component (B) which generates acid upon exposure, and a nitrogen-containing organic compound component (D), wherein the acid generator component (B) includes an acid generator (B1) containing a compound represented by general formula (b1-1) shown below, and the nitrogen-containing organic compound component (D) includes a compound (D1) represented by general formula (d1) shown below. In the formula, Y | 06-28-2012 |