Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Koichi Haga

Jiro Minabe

Kazuhiro Hayashi

Katsunori Kawano

Shin Yasuda

Yasuhiro Ogasawara

Hisae Yoshizawa

Makoto Furuki

Yoshiyuki Shiratsuki

Ichirou Asai

Yasufumi Suwabe

Shinobu Ozeki

Keizo Abe

Eiichi Akutsu

Michiaki Murata

Hiroaki Moriyama

Motohiko Sakamaki

Takashi Morikawa

Masao Watanabe

Hiroaki Satoh

Takehito Hikichi

Keiichi Nashimoto

Shigetoshi Nakamura

Mamoru Fujita

Koichi Saito

Hiroshi Fujimagari

Norie Matsui

Mutsuya Takahashi

Masaaki Lawrence Araki

Hiroo Soga

Shuichi Yamada

Ichiro Asai

Hisea Yoshizawa

A method of manufacturing a heating device includes preparing a substrate having a curved surface; and forming a heating body on the substrate, the heating body generating heat with a supply of electric current. The forming of the heating body includes pressing a screen toward the substrate with an aid of a pressing member while rotating the substrate and moving the screen, and transferring application liquid that is to form the heating body to the substrate through the screen. In the forming of the heating body, the pressing member is in contact with the screen at a position on an upstream side with respect to a transfer position in a direction of movement of the screen.

Method of manufacturing heating device by screen printing

An optical recording apparatus comprises: a focusing section that focuses to a transmission type recording medium a recording light beam including a signal light beam and a reference light beam which are radiated from a same direction with a common optical axis; and a focused-position moving section that moves with respect to a direction of the optical axis a focused position where the recording light beam is focused to the transmission type recording medium by the focusing section, wherein an interference fringe formed by the recording light beam is recorded in the transmission type recording medium at each position which is moved by the focused-position moving section.

Optical recording apparatus, optical recording method, recording medium, and reproducing method

An optical apparatus includes: a focusing lens that focuses light which is one of recording light being irradiated to an optical recording medium with reference light for recording a hologram and reference light being irradiated to an optical recording medium for reading out a hologram; and a focal position-shifting unit that refracts the light while moving in accordance with a moving speed of the optical recording medium, so as to shift a focal position of the light in the optical recording medium a distance in a thickness direction of the optical recording medium.

Optical apparatus

A hologram recording method includes generating light of a pattern in which a plurality of unit blocks, which include at least one pixel and express luminance, are arrayed, the pattern being sectioned into a region of a signal beam and a region of a reference beam, and being generated such that the region of the reference beam includes a plurality of unit blocks whose numbers of pixels are different; collecting the generated light at a common optical system, and illuminating it onto an optical recording medium; and recording, as a hologram, data which the signal beam expresses.

Hologram recording method and hologram recording device using generating light patterns

A display medium includes: a pair of substrates that have light transmittance; electrode members that are respectively formed on the opposing surfaces of the substrates, have light transmittance, and are capable of carrying an electric current; a display member that is interposed between the electrode members and displays display information when the electric current is supplied; a terminal portion provided at one electrode member; a reinforcing portion that has electrical conductivity and is joined to the terminal portion; and a mounted electrode that has electrical conductivity and is joined to the terminal portion by a joining material that has, after curing, a cohesive force larger than that of the reinforcing portion. The area of a reinforcing joining region of the terminal portion to which the reinforcing portion is joined is smaller than the area of a mounted joining region of the terminal portion to which the joining material is joined.

Display medium

An optical device for holographic recording or reading is provided and includes: a light emission unit that emits light to be irradiated on an optical recording medium, the light being recording or reading light; a first prism unit that moves in accordance with a moving speed of the optical recording medium and refracts the light to move the light irradiated on the optical recording medium over a distance in a moving direction of the optical recording medium so that the light is irradiated on substantially the same position on the optical recording medium for a period of time; and a second prism unit that moves in accordance with the moving speed of the first prism unit to compensate for an optical path length of the light.

Optical device for holographic recording or reading and method for controlling the same

A hologram recording material contains a molecule having intrinsic birefringence and a photoresponsive macromolecule represented by the following formula (1). in formula (1), Lrepresenting a bivalent linking group, X representing a group having a substituent constant &#x3c3; based on Hammett's rule of a value of more than 0, the maximum absorption wavelength of an azobenzene group bonding to X being approximately 360 nm or less, A representing a group that is a component of a repeating unit with a carbon number of 2 or more that is a component of a macromolecular main chain, nx representing an integer of 1 or 2, and n representing an integer of 1 or more.

Hologram recording material, hologram recording medium and hologram recording method

There is proposed a hologram recording method that includes: generating signal light by superimposing a periodic intensity distribution or phase distribution on an intensity distribution of light that expresses binary digital data as a light/dark image; Fourier transforming the signal light; illuminating Fourier transformed signal light and reference light simultaneously on an optical recording medium; and recording the signal light as a hologram.

Hologram recording method and hologram recording device

There is provided a data playback method including: acquiring first image data by illuminating reference light for reading onto an optical recording medium on which a hologram has been recorded by Fourier transforming and simultaneously illuminating reference light and signal light expressing digital data as a light-and-dark image, and detecting an inverse Fourier-transform image of diffracted light which is diffracted by the recorded hologram; acquiring second image data, which is a reversal image of the first image data, by generating combined light by combining the diffracted light and a dc component whose phase is different than a phase of a dc component of the signal light included in the diffracted light, and detecting an inverse Fourier-transform image of the combined light; and computing a difference in luminance for each pixel of the light-and-dark image, by carrying out computing processing by using the first and second image data.

Data playback method and device for data recorded as a hologram

A hologram recording method is disclosed in which: signal light includes a plurality of arranged reversal regions in which lightness and darkness of plural pixels of a light and dark image is reversed for an intensity distribution of the light and dark image; the signal light is Fourier-transformed; the Fourier-transformed signal light and reference light are illuminated onto an optical recording medium; and the signal light is recorded as a hologram. Also is disclosed an apparatus capable of implementing the hologram recording method, and an optical recording medium usable with the method.

Hologram recording apparatus, hologram recording method and optical recording medium

A hologram recording material is used for recording information by at least irradiation with light. The hologram recording material includes photoresponsive molecules, liquid crystal molecules, and particles having an average particle diameter of one tenth or less of a wavelength of light used in the information recording.

A two-dimensional coding method includes: using a two-dimensional image containing plural reference pixels each having a different brightness and data pixels representing data in accordance with brightness; and coding a binary sequence of plural bits to be recorded as a hologram by matching the brightness level of the data pixel based on the brightnesses of the plural reference pixels.

Two-dimensional coding method

There is provided a hologram recording method, including generating a signal light which is spatially modulated such that digital data is represented by an image of intensity distribution, irradiating the signal light on an optical recording medium after a Fourier transformation of the signal light such that a zero-order component of the signal light comes into focus at a point removed from the optical recording medium, forming a diffraction grating in the optical recording medium by interference between the zero-order component of the signal light and a high-order component thereof, and recording digital data represented by the signal light as a hologram.

Hologram recording method and device, hologram reproduction method and device, and optical recording medium

An optical recording method includes providing an optical recording medium capable of forming both a refractive index grating and an absorption grating by light irradiation; Fourier transforming with the same lens a signal beam that represents binary digital data with a brightness image and a reference beam such that they are focused at a point outside the optical recording medium; irradiating the Fourier transformed signal beam and reference beam simultaneously onto the optical recording medium and forming a diffraction grating at the optical recording medium according to an interference fringe between the signal beam and the reference beam, or according to an interference fringe within the signal beam itself; and recording the signal beam as a hologram.

Optical recording method, optical reproducing method, and optical reproducing apparatus

A hologram recording apparatus includes a light source for irradiating coherent light, light separator for separating the coherent light into light for reference beam and light for signal beam, optical path changer for changing an optical path of each light separated by the light separator so that the reference beam and the signal beam may be irradiated simultaneously onto an optical recording medium, a spatial light modulator disposed in the optical path of the light for the signal beam for modulating the light for the signal beam in accordance with a supplied recording signal to create signal beam for recording a hologram, and diffused light irradiator for irradiating diffused light simultaneously with the reference beam at least onto an area of the optical recording medium where the reference beam is irradiated.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Koichi Haga