Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Aya Shuto

Nobuhiro Kihara

Isao Takahashi

Yuriko Kaino

Ken Kobayashi

Hidehiko Takanashi

Kenichi Kurihara

Atsuhito Yasui

Yuki Oishi

Ryo Kasegawa

Nobukazu Hirai

Masakazu Mitsugi

Taichi Takeuchi

Satoko Asaoka

Asuka Tejima

Yusuke Kajio

Masaru Wada

Shinichiro Yamada

Seiichiro Tabata

Hironori Iida

Tomomasa Watanabe

Shun Yamanoi

Machiko Minatoya

Rika Kotake

A reversible recording medium according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a recording layer including a coloring compound having an electron-donating property, a color developing/quenching agent having an electron-accepting property, a photothermal conversion agent, and a macromolecular material; and an ultraviolet absorbing layer provided on the recording layer, the macromolecular material including an organic material that has solubility of 20 wt % or more and 80 wt % or less at 25° C. or less and contains 0.5 wt % or less of chlorine atoms, fluorine atoms, and sulfur atoms in a molecule.

Reversible recording medium and exterior member

A reversible recording medium of an embodiment of the disclosure includes a support base, and a recording layer provided on the support base and reversibly changing between a recorded state and a deleted state. The recording layer includes a photothermal conversion material including one or more of a compound having a phthalocyanine skeleton, a compound having a squarylium skeleton, a compound having a cyanine skeleton including, in a molecule, one or both of a counter ion of SbF, PF, BF, ClO, CFSOand (CFSO)N and a methine chain containing a five-membered ring or a six-membered ring, and an inorganic compound; a coloring compound having an electron-donating property; and a color developing/quenching agent having an electron-accepting property and including at least one salicylic acid compound represented by the general formula (1) and including a linear hydrocarbon group having 25 to 34 carbon atoms via a linking group containing an amide moiety.

Reversible recording medium, reversible recording medium coating, and exterior member

A three-dimensional structure according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of resin layers including a light curable resin, the light curable resin including a coloring compound, a color developing-reducing agent, and a photothermal conversion agent, the plurality of resin layers being stacked, the color developing-reducing agent having an average particle diameter of 10 &#x3bc;m or more and 100 &#x3bc;m or less.

Three-dimensional structure and method of manufacturing three-dimensional structure

A drawing method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes, when performing drawing on a thermal recording medium that includes a light-transmitting member above a recording layer, obtaining information regarding the light-transmitting member, predicting an optical axis deviation of a laser beam in the recording layer from the information regarding the light-transmitting member, and calculating a correction amount from a result of the prediction of the optical axis deviation.

Drawing method, erasing method, and drawing apparatus

A product design system includes a first transmitting section that uses a look-up table to convert second design image data for which image correction is completed into third design image data of a color space that is represented with a thermochromic material, and transmits the third design image data derived from the conversion to an external apparatus, and a second transmitting section that transmits a decorating request based on fourth design image data that is profile-transformed from the second design image data to a decorating apparatus.

Product design system and design image correction apparatus

A request processing apparatus includes a selecting section and an outputting section. The selecting section selects, from multiple pieces of photo data obtained through shooting during an event, one or more pieces of photo data consistent with a request accepted before or during the event. The outputting section outputs the one or more pieces of photo data selected by the selecting section.

Request processing apparatus and request accepting apparatus

A reversible recording medium according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first layer that reversibly changes between an achromatic state and a transparent state, and a second layer that reversibly changes between a chromatic state and a transparent state.

An optical apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is an apparatus that performs one or both of writing and erasing of information with respect to a reversible recording medium. This optical apparatus includes a plurality of laser devices varying in emission wavelength in a near infrared region (700 nm to 2500 nm), an optical system that multiplexes laser beams outputted from the plurality of laser devices, and a scanner unit that scans a multiplexed light beam obtained by multiplexing by the optical system, on the reversible recording medium.

Optical apparatus, rendering and erasing apparatus, and irradiation method

A recording device according to the present disclosure includes: a writer that rewrites schedule information visibly recorded on a recording medium and corresponding to a time from first schedule information to second schedule information; and a generator that generates the second schedule information on the basis of a time.

Recording device and recording system

A fiber assembly according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a fiber. The fiber includes a core part that contains a coloring compound, a photothermal conversion material, and a color developer/reducer, and a sheath part that covers the core part and has a heat-insulating property.

Fiber assembly, display unit, and electronic apparatus

An electrophoretic device includes: a porous layer including a first fibrous structure and a non-electrophoretic particle held in the first fibrous structure; an electrophoretic particle configured to move through a space formed at the porous layer; a second fibrous structure covering the porous layer; and a partition provided from the porous layer to the second fibrous structure.

Electrophoretic device, display unit, and electronic apparatus

There is provided a display unit including: in an insulating liquid, migrating particles; non-migrating particles having optical reflection characteristics different from optical reflection characteristics of the migrating particles; and a fibrous structure formed of a chain molecule and holding the non-migrating particles, the chain molecule containing an ester group and having a main part formed of carbon atoms, oxygen atoms, and hydrogen atoms.

Display unit and electronic apparatus

A display unit of the present invention includes, in an insulating liquid (), migrating particles (), and a porous layer () formed using a fibrous structure (), and the fibrous structure () includes non-migrating particles () having light reflectivity different from light reflectivity of the migrating particles () and being at least partially modified with a surfactant.

Display characteristics with memorability

An electrophoresis device including: in an insulating liquid, migrating particles in a charged state; and a porous layer including a fibrous structure and non-migrating particles, the fibrous structure having a potential opposite to that of the migrating particles, and the non-migrating particles held by the fibrous structure.

Electrophoresis device, display unit, and electronic apparatus

The present inventions relate to fine particles for image display having excellent properties and displaying images in black. The fine particles for image display are dispersed (suspended) in an electrophoretic dispersion liquid sealed between two opposing substrates and contain porous carbon materials having values of specific surface area determined by the nitrogen BET method of not less than 100 m/g and pore volume determined by the MP method of not less than 0.1 cm/g or those having values of specific surface area determined by the nitrogen BET method of not less than 100 m/g and at least one peak at not more than 10 nm in pore size distribution obtained by the non-localized density functional theory method.

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Aya Shuto