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20090040909 | Optical head device and optical information device - An optical head device is provided with a light source | 02-12-2009 |
20090201789 | OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE FOR FORMING LIGHT SPOT ON DISC-SHAPED INFORMATION MEDIUM - An optical head device has at least one upward-reflecting mirror, objective lenses, an objective lens actuator, and a moving mechanism. The upward-reflecting mirror receives an incident luminous flux having a wavelength emitted from a semiconductor, and changes its direction. The objective lenses having mutually different numerical apertures condenses the luminous flux whose direction has been changed by the upward-reflecting mirror to radiate a condensed luminous flux onto an information recording medium. The objective lens actuator moves the objective lenses in the focus direction of the information recording medium so that the luminous flux incident on the information recording medium becomes in a focused state. The moving mechanism moves the upward-reflecting mirror so that the luminous flux is incident on the information recording medium via any one of the objective lenses. | 08-13-2009 |
20100182890 | OPTICAL DISK RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE AND OPTICAL HEAD - An optical disk recording/reproducing device includes a turntable | 07-22-2010 |
20100232265 | DRIVE DEVICE, OPTICAL HEAD, AND OPTICAL DISK RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE - A spherical aberration correction mechanism | 09-16-2010 |
20110019524 | OPTICAL HEAD AND OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE - An optical head comprises: a light source that emits a light beam; an objective lens that condenses, in the form of converging light, the light beam emitted by the light source, onto an information recording medium; a cylindrical lens onto which a reflected light beam that is reflected by the information recording medium is incident, and which generates astigmatism for forming a focus error signal; a light detector that receives the reflected light beam passing through the cylindrical lens; and a holder that holds the cylindrical lens and the light detector. The holder has a first main face and a second main face that extend in directions that intersect the optical axis of the reflected light beam. The cylindrical lens is bonded to the first main face and the light detector is bonded to the second main face. | 01-27-2011 |
20120147726 | OPTICAL HEAD AND OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE - Provided are an optical head and an optical information device capable of inhibiting the temperature rise of a photodetector. An optical head ( | 06-14-2012 |
20120151508 | OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE, OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - When information is recorded or reproduced on or from an optical information medium having three or more recording layers using blue light, interference by another layer light is reduced and, when information is reproduced from an optical information medium using red light, an S/N ratio is held excellently high. | 06-14-2012 |
20130010584 | OPTICAL HEAD AND OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE - There are provided an optical head and an optical information device capable of downsizing the optical head, and capable of improving the qualities of a focus error signal, a tracking error signal, and a reproduction signal. A light detector ( | 01-10-2013 |
20130152110 | OPTICAL DRIVE SYSTEM, CARTRIDGE AND DRIVE DEVICE WHICH ARE USED IN OPTICAL DRIVE SYSTEM, AND CLEANING METHOD FOR OPTICAL DRIVE SYSTEM - The present application discloses an optical drive system, including: a cartridge with a wall portion which defines a storage room to store a rotatable record medium with a light receiving surface scanned by light; and a drive device with a rotary driver, which rotates the record medium, an optical element, which irradiates the light, and a movement driver, which moves the optical element between inner and outer positions. The wall portion is provided with an outlet at the outer position. Air in the storage room is exhausted from the outlet by air flow resulting from rotation of the record medium. The outlet is divided into first and second opening regions by a movement track of the optical element. The first opening region is larger than the second opening region at an upstream position of the first opening region in a rotational direction of the record medium. | 06-13-2013 |
20140380342 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS, SHEET MEMBER, AND METHOD FOR CLEANING OBJECTIVE LENS - The present application discloses optical disc apparatus including: drive mechanism for rotating medium including processing surface to be subjected optical information process; housing for storing drive mechanism; tray mechanism for displacing medium between storage position, at which medium is stored in housing, and ejection position, at which medium is ejected from housing; at least one objective lens for condensing light onto processing surface of medium situated at storage position to perform information process; and first displacement mechanism for displacing at least one objective lens along processing surface between first position and second position which is more distant from rotational center of medium rotated by the drive mechanism than first position is. Tray mechanism defines at least one opening in position closer to second position than first position. | 12-25-2014 |
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20080246454 | DC/DC CONVERTER - A DC/DC converter is supplied such that the desired output setting voltage can be obtained as the load-side output, even when the difference between the power supply voltage and the output setting voltage of the load-side output is large. This DC/DC converter comprises a switching device, a voltage divider, an error amplifier, an oscillator which outputs a oscillation clock, a slope circuit which receives the oscillation clock and outputs a sawtooth waveform voltage having a slope which begins at the leading edge of the oscillation clock, a comparator which compares the sawtooth waveform voltage and the output voltage of the error amplifier, and a logic circuit which is set by the trailing edge of the oscillation clock, and is reset by the output of the comparator. | 10-09-2008 |
20090009104 | Step-Up/Down Regulator Circuit and Liquid Crystal Display Device Incorporating It - A step-up/step-down regulator circuit wherein a switch (N | 01-08-2009 |
20090309117 | PROTECTION CIRCUIT, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE USING SUCH PROTECTION CIRCUIT - In a protection circuit connected, via lines including an inductance component, to a circuit to be protected, a first transistor is arranged on a path to ground from a connection point of the protection circuit and the line. A second transistor is arranged on a path to ground from a connection point of the circuit to be protected and the line, and extracts, from a connection point, a current corresponding to a current flowing in the first transistor. The first and the second transistors are NPN bipolar transistors having a base and an emitter are commonly connected. A resistor is connected between the base and the emitter of the first transistor, and a diode is connected between the base and a collector. | 12-17-2009 |
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20120075208 | INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A game apparatus includes a first LCD and a second LCD, and a CPU displays a game screen on the LCDs according to a game program and layout data. On the second LCD, a touch panel is provided. On the second LCD, a plurality of objects are displayed. When a help mode key is touched, a “?” cursor is displayed near each of objects for which a description message is prepared (target object), and if any “?” cursor is touched, a detailed explanation of the target object indicated by the “?” cursor is displayed on the first LCD as a description message. | 03-29-2012 |
20140215402 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREON INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - When an information processing apparatus is started, reception of data indicative of presence of a connection point apparatus is attempted. A plurality of objects respectively corresponding to a plurality of application programs is displayed on a display device, and upon reception of an operation performed by a user, an application program corresponding to one of the objects selected by the operation performed by the user is launched. When the data is received, a display form of an object, which relates to a connection application program including a program for executing a procedural step of connecting to the connection point apparatus, is changed. | 07-31-2014 |
20150057027 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREON INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - When an information processing apparatus is started, reception of data indicative of presence of a connection point apparatus is attempted. A plurality of objects respectively corresponding to a plurality of application programs is displayed on a display device, and upon reception of an operation performed by a user, an application program corresponding to one of the objects selected by the operation performed by the user is launched. When the data is received, a display form of an object, which relates to a connection application program including a program for executing a procedural step of connecting to the connection point apparatus, is changed. | 02-26-2015 |
20150074608 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing System, and Storage Medium Having Stored Thereon Information Processing Program - When an information processing apparatus is started, reception of data indicative of presence of a connection point apparatus is attempted. A plurality of objects respectively corresponding to a plurality of application programs is displayed on a display device, and upon reception of an operation performed by a user, an application program corresponding to one of the objects selected by the operation performed by the user is launched. When the data is received, a display form of an object, which relates to a connection application program including a program for executing a procedural step of connecting to the connection point apparatus, is changed. | 03-12-2015 |
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20120102028 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM THEREIN, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A computer-readable storage medium having stored an information processing program therein, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing system, which can efficiently prevent output of inappropriate contents to a recipient. Data including a content is assigned creation information indicating information related to a time when the content is created. Identification information for identifying a content which is inappropriate to be outputted to a user, among contents included in the data received from another information processing apparatus, is previously registered. A content identified on the basis of the previously registered identification information is set so as not to be outputted, whereby only a content which is not set so as not to be outputted can be outputted to the user. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102246 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM THEREIN, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium having stored an information processing program therein, an information processing method, and an information processing system, which can share, with another apparatus, information regarding data which should not be provided to a user, are provided. The number of times of reporting of data including a contents, which should not be provided to the user, from each game apparatus | 04-26-2012 |
20120220230 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is a communication system which includes a plurality of game apparatuses. Each game apparatus performs short-range wireless communication with another game apparatus among the plurality of game apparatuses. Through the short-range wireless communication, the game apparatus receives identification information of the other game apparatus (other-apparatus identification information) from the other game apparatus. The game apparatus detects the communication status of the short-range wireless communication with the other game apparatus. Based on the detection result, the game apparatus determines whether or not to register the other game apparatus which is associated with the received other-apparatus identification information. When determining to register the other game apparatus, the information processing apparatus registers the other game apparatus and performs communication with the registered other game apparatus. | 08-30-2012 |
20120220376 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING A PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A game apparatus | 08-30-2012 |
20130102392 | MATCHING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SERVER, MATCHING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MATCHING PROGRAM - A game system | 04-25-2013 |
20130297052 | RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An example information processing device includes: an operation acceptance part for accepting operation performed with respect to an operation part; a sound information processing part for performing information processing based on sound input to a sound input part; and a sound invalidation part for substantially invalidating sound input to the sound input part when the operation with respect to the operation part is accepted by the operation acceptance part. | 11-07-2013 |
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20110114825 | Ambient Light Sensor - In an ambient light sensor according to the present invention, a current amplification portion which amplifies a light current obtained by a light receiving portion to generate an output signal includes: a current amplification stage that has: a first current mirror amplifier which is composed of a bipolar transistor, and a second current mirror amplifier which is composed of a field effect transistor connected in parallel with the first current mirror amplifier; and a changeover control circuit which monitors an amplified current input into the current amplification stage, and performs changeover control of the first and second current mirror amplifiers according to a value of the amplified current. | 05-19-2011 |
20110260629 | Illuminance Sensor, and Electronic Equipment and Semiconductor Device Using the Same - In an illuminance sensor, a photoelectric converter ( | 10-27-2011 |
20120206414 | MOBILE DEVICE - Disclosed is a mobile device comprising an acceleration detection unit for detecting acceleration relative to the device; a condition identification unit; and a power supply controller which determines, from a combination of the output of the acceleration detection unit and the output of the condition identification unit, whether or not to begin to supply power to the device. | 08-16-2012 |
20150083915 | OPTICAL SENSOR DEVICE - An optical sensor device includes at least two light receiving units in which a plurality of types of light receiving elements is integrated in the same vertical structure. In addition, the optical sensor device further includes a switch unit configured to select at least one of the light receiving elements in each of the light receiving units in a time-division manner. | 03-26-2015 |
20150084904 | Mobile Device - Disclosed is a mobile device comprising an acceleration detection unit for detecting acceleration relative to the device; a condition identification unit; and a power supply controller which determines, from a combination of the output of the acceleration detection unit and the output of the condition identification unit, whether or not to begin to supply power to the device. | 03-26-2015 |