Eizo Gmbh

Hidekazu Hogo

Kentaro Kojima

Masahiro Okuda

Makoto Kitamura

Kenichi Amemiya

Provided is a sensor unit driving device capable of protruding and retracting a sensor unit for sensing a display surface without projecting a bezel in front of a display surface while reducing a width of a bezel. The present invention is to provide a sensor unit driving device comprising a display panel comprising a display surface for displaying an image, a sensor unit with a sensor, and an actuator driving the sensor unit. The sensor unit is configured to be on a lateral surface side or a rear surface side of the display panel when the sensor unit is in a retreat position and is configured so that the sensor faces the display surface when the sensor unit is in a detection position. The actuator is configured to drive the sensor unit for switching between the retreat position and the detection position by a movement of the sensor unit.

Sensor unit driving device

A monitor stand with a support portion supporting a monitor; a base contacting a placing plane; and a support pillar connecting the support portion and the base. The support pillar includes a plurality of support pillar members provided to overlap one another and the plurality of support pillar members being configured to be slidable one another. The support portion is provided in a first support pillar member which is one of the plurality of the support pillar members. The support pillar includes an interlocking portion configured to extend and shorten the support pillar by sliding the plurality of the support pillar members one another.

Monitor stand

Provided is a photosensor device that even when the width and thickness of a bezel are reduced, can cause a sensor unit to smoothly exit and enter the bezel. Using drive means, a photosensor device causes a sensor unit to perform multiple rotation operations. Thus, the sensor unit is allowed to approach a display screen of an image display panel for a measurement and to be stored in a bezel after the measurement.

Photosensor device and image display device

There is provided an optical sensor device that, even when the frame is slimmed, can cause the sensor unit to leave or enter the frame smoothly, as well as can accommodate position shifts of the image display panel caused by activation and resulting heat generation thereof. An optical sensor deviceincludes a main body frame, a sensor unitincluding an optical sensor, guide membersconfigured to guide the sensor unit, and drive means configured to move the sensor unitto a measurement position. The sensor unitis provided with, on both sides thereof, slide members. The sensor unitmoves obliquely forward along slopesformed on front portions of the guide members, and a shading memberdisposed on the sensor unitcontacts a display screenof the image display panel. After making a measurement, the sensor unitmoves obliquely backward and is stored in the main body frame

Optical sensor device and image display device

A novel sensor unit actuating mechanism that can cause a sensor unit to leave or enter a frame smoothly even when the thickness of the frame is reduced and that has a mechanism for coping with a prank by a child or the like, such as a push-back of the sensor unit. The sensor unit actuating mechanism includes a frame, a sensor unit including an optical sensor, a spring member configured to expand or contract in a Y direction, actuators configured to contract against the resilience of the spring member when energized, and a guide member for moving the sensor unit linearly in an X direction. When the actuator is energized, the sensor unit, is linearly moved from inside the frame to the measurement position; when the actuator is energized, the sensor unit is linearly moved from the measurement position to inside the frame and stored therein.

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Ishikawa, Japan

Hidekazu Hogo