Sony Corporation

Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha

Other

Toray Industries, Inc.

Sony Disc & Digital Solutions Inc.

Sony Electronics (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Food & Machinery Co., Ltd.

Kirin Brewery Company, Limted

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd.

Akira Shirakura

Nobuhiro Kihara

Shigeyuki Baba

Koji Ashizaki

Takahiro Toyoda

Hirotsugu Suzuki

Yasuji Yui

Koichi Kawasumi

Masaki Nakaya

Haruo Watanabe

Hiroshi Tokunaga

Shigeru Mori

Takao Tsuchiya

Seijiro Tomita

Tatsuru Sato

Toshio Iribe

Hideki Matsuzaka

Akio Hitachi

Toshio Kikuchi

Akio Mishima

Eric D Edwards

Yoshiaki Kumagai

Toshimi Fukuoka

Yuji Yakura

Minoru Danno

Hideo Yamakoshi

Osamu Akimoto

Kazumasa Sato

Tadahiro Uemura

Ko Ishimoto

Norikazu Iwasaki

Yoshio Himeshima

Yuji Asahara

Hideyasu Ando

Takaharu Kitada

Shinichi Yamada

Chao Hsu Lee

Megumi Ezura

Yuji Nakagawa

Shuichi Yokokura

Kazutaka Hayashi

Takao Aoki

Takashi Matsubara

Seiji Goto

Eihaku Shimamura

Isamu Sakuma

Hirotaka Sugiyama

Ichiro Yonezawa

Chiori Ito

Nam-Heun Kim

Koji Ashikazi

Yuichirou Ikemoto

Takashi Mori

Hisashi Andoh

Hirotsuga Suzuki

Kiyoshi Hiroya

Teruyuki Yamasaki

A hologram-including medium is disclosed, which is an integrated medium on which at least two items of identification information are recorded, wherein one of the two items of identification information is holographic identification information which can be observed within a predetermined angle range when illuminated from a predetermined angle.

Hologram-including medium, hologram-including medium producing apparatus, and information authentication method

A barrier-film forming apparatus that forms a barrier film on an inner face of a container having a concave or convex portion as a processing target, including: a dielectric member having a cavity sized to enclose the container, an external electrode covering an outer circumference of the dielectric member, an exhaust unit installed on an end face of the external electrode on a side where a mouth of the container is located, with an insulating member interposed therebetween, and depressurizing inside of the container through an exhaust pipe, an internal electrode inserted from a side of the exhaust pipe and also serving as a gas blowout unit that blows out medium gas for generating a barrier film into the container, and an electric-field applying unit that applies an electric field for generating exhaust between the external electrode and a ground electrode.

Barrier-film forming apparatus, barrier-film forming method, and barrier-film coated container

Methods of manufacturing a gas barrier plastic container include a method in which the inside of a vacuum chamber which houses a plastic container is exhausted to form a pre-set pressure, and while maintaining a state where electricity is supplied to a thermal catalyst arranged inside the vacuum chamber to generate heat above a pre-set temperature, a source gas is blown on the thermal catalyst to decompose the source gas and create chemical species, whereby a gas barrier thin film is formed by the chemical species reaching at least one of either the inner surface or the outer surface of the plastic container.

Method of manufacturing a gas barrier plastic container

An image recording medium in which a refractive index modulation is recorded in a material in a layer such that, when the hologram recording medium is illuminated from a predetermined angle and a viewpoint is moved horizontally with respect to a normal line, a hologram image having continuous parallax in at least the horizontal direction is reproduced and that, when the viewpoint is moved in a direction with respect to the normal line different from the horizontal direction, another image that is different from and thus is not continuous with the hologram image is reproduced.

Image recording medium, hologram replicating device and hologram replicating method

Disclosed herein is a hologram recording medium, wherein in a volume hologram, the hologram recording medium is covered with a partially patterned optical functional film on the side closer to the viewer than a hologram recording layer without the medium of air, and wherein the hologram recording medium maintains its appearance approximately unchanged irrespective of the presence or absence of the optical functional film.

Hologram recording medium

A hologram judging apparatus includes a housing and first and second light sources attached to the housing and emitting reconstruction illumination light. In the hologram judging apparatus, the first and second light sources each include a wavelength component with a wavelength &#x3bb; meeting the reconstruction condition of a Lippmann hologram, and any one of the first and second light sources is a light source making the reconstruction illumination light enter a hologram at an angle &#x3b8;ref which is identical to another angle &#x3b8;ref with respect to the normal in a plane of incidence, the other angle &#x3b8;ref meeting the reconstruction condition of a Lippmann method.

Hologram judging apparatus

Recording an image of a holographic stereogram includes providing an optical deflecting device in proximity to a hologram recording medium that is exposed with a stripe-shaped elemental hologram. Either an object beam or a reference beam is deflected, in a long side direction thereof, through the optical deflecting device to expose the hologram recording medium. The hologram recording medium is multiply exposed, at least twice, with different deflection angles of the optical deflecting device to cause the stripe-shaped elemental hologram to have a plurality of parallaxes in a long side direction of the stripe-shaped elemental hologram.

Image recording method, image recording apparatus, and image recording medium

The object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for manufacturing a gas barrier plastic container which simultaneously satisfies the condition that the same vacuum chamber can be used even when the container shapes are different, the condition that a high-frequency power source is unnecessary, and the condition that film formation can be carried out for a plurality of containers inside one vacuum chamber in order to make the apparatus low cost. In an apparatus for forming a film on the inner surface of a container, a thermal catalyst is supported on a source gas supply pipe, and the source gas supply pipe is inserted into the port of the container, followed by film formation. In an apparatus for forming a film on the outer surface of a container, a thermal catalyst is arranged on the periphery of the plastic, and a source gas is blown out through the source gas supply pipe while bringing the source gas into contact with the thermal catalyst for film formation. Cooling is carried out to avoid the thermaldeformation of the container by heat radiated from the thermal catalyst. For example, a container on which a hydrogen-containing SiNthin film having a film thickness of 5 to 100 nm and a hydrogen content ratio of 1 to 10 atomic % has been obtained.

Apparatus for manufacturing gas barrier plastic container, method for manufacturing the container, and the container

A parallax image pickup apparatus for forming a parallax image train by photographing an object from a plurality of directions includes an image pickup unit in which an image pickup device and an image forming optical system are integrated in order to photograph the parallax images of the object; a rotating unit on which the image pickup unit is mounted and which rotates the image pickup unit in a parallax direction; an image pickup unit moving unit for rectilinearly moving the image pickup unit and the rotating unit synchronously with the rotation of the rotating unit; a control unit for controlling so that a virtual image pickup center portion is always located at the center of a photographed image; and a focal distance control unit for continuously changing a focal distance of the image pickup unit.

Parallax image pickup apparatus and image pickup method

The present invention provides a plastic container or bottle having an inner wall surface coated with a DLC film which has the same level of oxygen barrier property as prior art DLC coated containers while at the same time preventing the coloration of the neck portion found in the containers of the prior art. The DLC film formed on the neck portion of the inventive bottle has a lower graphite mixing proportion than the DLC film formed on body portion, and the oxygen permeability of the container is less than or equal to 0.0050 ml/container (500 ml PET container)/day. The apparatus and the method of producing such a bottle are also described.

DLC film coated plastic container, and device and method for manufacturing the plastic container

A plurality of source data frames is input into a processor. The plurality of source data frames is sectioned into a plurality of sections which are mapped to form a plurality of pre-distort images. The plurality of pre-distort images is compensated for variations in the degree of saturation (Diffraction Efficiency) to reduce ghosting and compressed to form a plurality of holographic elements, which are recorded onto a holographic recording medium to form a holographic stereogram.

Reducing ghosting in holographic stereograms

A lighting apparatus is provided. The lighting apparatus includes a power supply housing section, a circuit board housing section, a light source housing section, a cutout portion, and a light source. An image recorded on a record medium is displayed in the state that an end portion of the power supply housing section and an end portion of the record medium secured to the cutout portion are placed on a surface where the lighting apparatus is placed.

Lighting apparatus

A method capable of converting motion image data, which is captured in an ordinary way without intending to produce parallax image printed matter, to data that can be printed as parallax image printed matter is provided. The method includes the steps of specifying at least one frame as a reference frame from a plurality of frames constituting the motion image data, and setting a point-of-regard on an object in the reference frame, calculating an amount of movement of the point-of-regard using a relation between the point-of-regard in the reference frame and a point corresponding thereto in another frame, obtaining a motion compensation amount for each frame based on this amount of movement thereof, and executing a motion compensation processing for the motion image data based on the motion compensation amount, thereby converting the motion image data to parallax image data.

Image processing apparatus and method, printed matter production apparatus and method, and printed matter production system

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Tokyo, Japan

Akira Shirakura