Abstract:
An image pickup device disclosed by this application includes an image pickup element; a lens optical system including a focus lens; a driving section for driving one of the image pickup element and the focus lens so as to change a distance between the image pickup element and the focus lens; a displacement control section configured to output an instruction to the driving section to control displacement of the image pickup element or the focus lens which is driven, based on a prescribed displacement pattern; and a synchronization section configured to control the displacement control section based on timing for exposing the image pickup element. Where first and second focus positions of the focus lens or the image pickup element provide focusing at first and second subject distances respectively in an image pickup scene, the displacement pattern includes a first type of displacement pattern by which the focus lens or the image pickup element is displaced in a displacement range between the first focus position and the second focus position, and a second type of displacement pattern by which the focus lens or the image pickup element is displaced in another displacement range between the first focus position and the second focus position; the first type of displacement pattern and the second type of displacement pattern being alternately repeated.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a user interface capable of allowing a user to simply and intuitively operate without changing various input devices.SOLUTION: An information processing apparatus 10a comprises: a touch screen panel 14 that displays images thereon and receives touch operations made by a user; a detection circuit 21 that detects the operations made by the user on the touch screen panel 14; and a processing circuit 20 that performs processing according to the operation. When a user makes an operation using a polyhedral input interface device which has plural faces each having a different shape, the detection circuit 21 detects a shape of a region where the input interface device comes into contact with the touch screen panel during the operation. Thereby, the plane of the polyhedral input interface device used for operation is identified, and the processing circuit 20 performs a processing which is associated with the identified plane.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce interference by light of other layers when recording or reproducing information on an optical information medium having three or more recording layers by using light of a wavelength λ1 and to keep an S/N ratio high and excellent when reproducing information from the optical information medium by using light of a wavelength λ2 longer than the wavelength λ1.SOLUTION: A wavelength selection light shield region 7x is disposed at a position which is between a second beam splitter 6 and a light detector 9 and is a position at least intersecting the center parts of the luminous flux of light of a wavelength λ1 and light of a wavelength λ2, and is formed on a detection hologram 7.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical disk drive that corrects other-layer stray light for each of respective information layers of a multilayer optical disk having a plurality of information layers to normalize an error signal, and actuates a servo.SOLUTION: The optical disk drive includes other-layer stray light detecting means and other-layer stray light correcting means, and normalizes the error signal after correcting other-layer stray light for a full-addition signal, so that control is performed with the error signal having been normalized correctly, thereby improving recording and reproduction performance of the drive.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical disk device by which the access time of focus position learning is improved without moving to the region of focus position adjustment even when focus position learning is performed, and to provide an offset data-generating method for the same. SOLUTION: The optical disk device can have focus position data for each zone of an optical disk 1 and for each temperature by supplementing one another data possessed by three data table of an inner peripheral data table, temporary data table, and an offset data table. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical disk drive and optical disk reproducing method to stably perform read operation even on a slim disk with significant axial runout, in an optical disk for reading information. SOLUTION: The optical disk drive determines that the mounted optical disk is a slim disk, when a discrimination result of disk size by elapsed time until the optical disk reaches a predetermined number of revolutions and a discrimination result of disk size by a signal read from the optical disk are different and restricts the number of revolutions of the optical disk more than the predetermined number of revolutions in step 207 in order to suppress the influence of axial runout. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To adjust a light beam and a spherical aberration amount so that reproduced signal quality becomes optimal while performing stable tracking control. SOLUTION: An optical disk drive includes a control means. The control means controls, while the tracking control is in the off state, a focus position-changing means to change the focus position of a light beam and controls a spherical aberration amount-changing means to change a spherical aberration amount, thereby performing a first search to search for a plurality of sets of a focus position of the light beam and a spherical aberration amount which cause the amplitude of a tracking error signal to be greater than a predetermined value. The control means performs, while the tracking control is in the on state, a second search to determine a set of a focus position of the light beam and a spherical aberration amount which causes a reproduced signal quality index to be substantially optimal, from the plurality of sets of a focus position of the light beam and a spherical aberration amount which have been obtained in the first search. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT