Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an infrared optical system which has excellent optical characteristics in a far-infrared region and can be provided at low cost, and an infrared imaging device.SOLUTION: An infrared optical system comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first optical element 10, a second optical element 11, a third optical element 13 and a fourth optical element 14. The fourth optical element has positive refractive power. A diaphragm 12 is provided between the second optical element and the third optical element. The first optical element and the fourth optical element are made of any of silicon (Si), chalcogenide glass and zinc sulfide (ZnS). The second optical element and the third optical element are made of a resin material, and are configured so that at least one of a surface at the object side and a surface at the image side is aspherical.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simply structured highly sensitive infrared ray detecting element involving no complexity in the manufacturing process.SOLUTION: An upper electrode of an infrared ray detecting element is provided with open functional parts in which the thickness of the upper electrode is made thinner or even reduced to zero; as the transmissivity of infrared rays becomes greater in such open functional parts, the quantity of infrared rays transmitted toward a pyroelectric element can be correspondingly increased; namely, as a result, the sensitivity of detecting infrared rays can be enhanced; the open functional parts are formed merely by making the upper electrode thinner or reducing the thickness thereof even to zero and, therefore, the infrared ray detecting element manufacturing process can be prevented from becoming more complex in achieving this enhanced sensitivity.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately detect a skin region.SOLUTION: A light emitting device 21 irradiates a subject with light of a first wavelength and light of a second wavelength. A camera 22 incorporates an image sensor having at least a first light-receiving element for receiving the light of the first wavelength and a second light-receiving element for receiving the light of the second wavelength. A first mosaic image is generated on the basis of reflection light from the subject while the subject is irradiated with the light of the first and second wavelength made incident to the image sensor, and there are generated a first image obtained by first interpolation processing based on a pixel value of a pixel corresponding to the first light-receiving element, among pixels constituting the generated first mosaic image, and a second image obtained by second interpolation processing based on a pixel value of a pixel corresponding to the second light-receiving element. An image processing apparatus 23 then detects a skin region on the basis of the first and second images. The present invention may be applicable to a computer or the like that extracts a skin region representing the skin of a human being from an image obtained by e.g., image pickup.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a spatial control input device with excellent portability and to provide electronic equipment and a hand-held device which include the input device. SOLUTION: The input device 1 has a card-like shape and the whole size of the input device 1 is approximately the same size as an expansion card such as a PC card. The input device 1 includes a case 10 and a connector 6 formed on one end part of the case 10. The other end part (top portion 7) of the case 10 is formed so as to be bent and a sensor unit 17 is arranged on the top part 7 side. Since the input device 1 can be inserted into a slot 66 of a note type PC40 and carried, the portability of the input device 1 can be improved. When a user grasps the input device 1, the input device 1 is unconsciously grasped so that a connector 6 is directed to the user side and the top part 7 is directed to a screen 3. Consequently, the sensor unit 17 arranged on the top part 7 side can suitably detect an angular velocity, acceleration, and so on. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an input device, a control device, a control system and a control method for easily moving UI to a prescribed direction. SOLUTION: An MPU 19 of an input device 1 multiplies a yaw angular velocity value ω ψ and a roll angular velocity ω ϕ respectively by movement coefficients α and β expressed by prescribed rates. An MPU 19 calculates the composite angular velocity value ω γ of two angular velocity values ω ψ ' and ω ϕ ' acquired by multiplying the angular velocities ω ψ and ω ϕ by the movement coefficients α and β (step 704). As the calculation expression of composition, for example, ω γ =ω ψ '+ω ϕ '(=αω ψ +βω ϕ ). Thus, it is possible for the user to control the movement of a UI in a first axial direction by either rotating an input device around a Z' axis and moving the input device to an X' axis direction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem with conventional disk recording and/or reproduction apparatuses, such as notebook personal computers and the like where a space (particularly, an area) occupied by a disk drive device is larger than those of the other parts provided therein, so that it is difficult to reduce the size of a notebook personal computer or the like. SOLUTION: A disk recording and/or reproduction apparatus has a turntable 18 onto which an optical disk 20 is detachably attached, a disk drive device 10 that can record and/or reproduce an information signal to/from the optical disk 20 rotated and driven by the turntable 18 while the optical disk 20 is attached to the turntable 18, and a housing 2 having a drive accommodating unit 12 in which the disk drive device is accommodated in a manner that allows the disk drive device to move. The disk drive device 10 is moved in a direction in which the disk drive device 10 protrudes from the disk accommodating unit 12 during usage, so that recording and/or reproduction is performed with respect to the optical disk while at least a portion of the optical disk 20 attached to the turntable 18 protrudes from the drive accommodating unit. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a disk drive device allowing flattening of the whole device for occasions to carry it. SOLUTION: This information processor is provided with: the disk drive device having an upper casing 3 provided with an input operation part and formed in a flat rectangular parallelepiped, an lower casing 2 attitude-changeably supporting the upper casing, formed in a flat rectangular parallelepiped allowing overlap, and a turntable 41 stored in the upper casing or the lower casing, and detachably installed with an optical disk 30, and allowing recording and/or reproduction of an information signal to the optical disk installed to the turntable and rotationally driven; and a cam member 70 setting a disk storage area to a first thickness wherein the upper casing 3 is estranged from the lower casing 2 in using of the disk drive device, bringing the upper casing 3 close to the lower casing 2 such that the disk storage area is contracted when disuse of the disk drive device, and setting the disk storage area to a second thickness smaller than the first thickness. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT