Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi-Lg Data Storage, Inc.

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

Maxell, Ltd.

Kouji Fujita

Hideo Nishijima

Shigemitsu Higuchi

Motoyoshi Sasaki

Kazuya Yamashita

Kouji Kaniwa

Minoru Kosuge

Atsuo Suga

Toshiro Aizawa

Nobuo Masuoka

Satoshi Ouchi

Kenichiro Yamada

Yoshiho Seo

Nobuyuki Kaku

Keizo Nishimura

Tomoto Kawamura

Kenji Ogiro

Taku Hoshizawa

Toshiteru Nakamura

Takahiro Matsuda

Shinsuke Onoe

Ukyo Ikeda

Hirofumi Taguchi

Yuji Inaba

Kooji Kaniwa

An object of the invention is to provide a technology for further improving scanning performance. Provided is an optical scanning device including: a scanning unit including an optical waveguide configured to guide incident light and emit the light from an emission end, and a vibration unit configured to generate a vibration and vibrate the emission end; and a signal transmission unit configured to transmit a signal to the scanning unit and cause the scanning unit to scan an object, characterized in that the scanning unit includes a first bonding and vibration attenuating unit configured to bond, with an elastic member, an end surface of the vibration unit closer to the emission end and the optical waveguide.

Optical scanning device, imaging device, and TOF type analyzer

A permissible range of a mobile terminal that operates in cooperation with a target operation device in accordance with a user's whereabouts in a house is dynamically switched. An intercom has a function permission number control unit that generates calling information to require a cooperated operation to be carried out with the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a function permission number storing unit and a CPU. The function permission number storing unit stores function permission numbers respectively set to mobile terminals. When a function permission number transmitted from the intercom is received, the CPU determines whether the function permission number coincides with a function permission number of a function permission information storing unit or not, and sets an application for carrying out the cooperated operation with the intercom to active in a case where they coincide with each other.

Target operation device communicating system, mobile terminal, and target operation device communication cooperating method

In an optical information recording/reproducing device that radiates signal light and reference light to a recording medium, forms a hologram, and records information and emits the reference light to the hologram of the recording medium and reproduces information, a laser light source that generates the signal light and the reference light; a light angle control unit that controls an angle of the reference light incident on the recording medium; a light detecting unit that detects diffracted light when the reference light is radiated; a positioning unit that allocates an address to the recording medium and performs positioning of the recording medium for the address; a tilt measuring unit that measures a tilt of the recording medium; and a control unit that controls the incidence angle of the reference light, on the basis of a tilt measurement result in a recording mode, in a reproduction mode, are included.

Optical information recording/reproducing device and optical information recording/reproducing method

An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus for recording information on a recording medium and/or reproducing information from the recording medium, includes: a laser light source for performing recording and/or reproducing information; a shielding part, using a liquid crystal, that can switch between transmission and interception of laser light emitted from the laser light source; a driving circuit for driving the switching between transmission and interception of the shielding part; a moving part for relatively moving the shielding part and the laser light; and a controlling circuit for controlling the moving part. The moving part relatively moves the shielding part and the laser light so as to switch a region to which the laser light is applied from a first region of the shielding part to a second region thereof different from the first region, in order to prevent the liquid crystal from deteriorating.

Optical information recording/reproducing apparatus

An optical information recording/reproduction device includes a detection unit which detects a focus-direction height of a recording medium, a focus adjustment unit which adjusts a focus-direction distance between the recording medium and a signal light optical system and a reference light system, and a control unit which controls the focus adjustment unit so that a relative distance between the object lens of the signal light optical system and the recording medium is adjusted according to the focus-direction height of the recording medium detected by the detection unit.

Optical information recording device

Apparatus which records and reproduces signals includes a unit which receives signals, a first recorder which records the signals received by the unit on a first recording medium, and a first reproducer which reproduces the signals recorded on the first recording medium. A second recorder is provided which records the signals reproduced by the first reproducer on a second recording medium, a detector is provided which detects a commercial message portion from the signals recorded on the second recording medium, and a second reproducer is provided which reproduces the signals recorded on the second recording medium while excluding the commercial message portion detected by the detector.

Recorder/reproducer

In an optical disc drive apparatus, when a start time of a tracking pull-in operation is adjusted according to the eccentricity amount of the optical disc, a suitable starting point of the tracking pull-in operation can be always captured and the pull-in operation of the tracking control can be stably performed, without depending on the eccentricity amount of the optical disc. Further, the eccentricity amount and an eccentricity phase are detected from a track zero crossing signal before the tracking pull-in, and an eccentricity compensation signal of the track is added to the tracking control signal. As a result, also in the optical disc with the large eccentricity amount, the tracking pull-in operation can be stably performed.

Optical disc drive apparatus

A light source includes a plurality of light emitting elements, and each light emitting element is disposed in such a manner that a direction of an optical axis of the light emitting element having a highest luminance is disposed at a predetermined inclination angle relative to a plane of the liquid crystal display. The optical guide member has an optical guide portion of a wedge shape having a first flat plane generally perpendicular to the optical axis of each light emitting element for receiving light from each light emitting element and a second flat plane having a predetermined angle relative to the optical axis and intersecting the first flat plane at an acute angle for reflecting light. A plurality of optical guide portions are disposed in a plane and formed integrally along a predetermined direction corresponding to the inclination direction of the light emitting elements.

Backlight assembly for liquid crystal display apparatus having inclined light emmitting elements

According to the invention, techniques for recording data onto recording media at relatively high transfer rates for relatively long periods of time. Embodiments according to the present invention include systems and apparatus capable of an improved sustained rate of data recording onto disk type-recording media, for example. Many embodiments can remove the upper limits of both recording capacity and the number of media that can be used. Select embodiments can be used with different kinds of recording media as well. In a specific embodiment, the area on a hard disk is divided into three areas. A first area can be suitable for sequential recording of continuous data. A second area can be suitable for random recording of discontinuous data. A third area can be used for recording logical sector numbers, coupling logical sector numbers, and file information that are used for marking each of the first and second areas, so that continuous data can be recorded on the hard disk at a high data rate.

Data recording apparatus and system having sustained high transfer rates

In a conventional method for preventing a collision between a lens and an optical disc which uses a control system similar to the servo control of the optical disc, it is feared that, when there is no need to apply the servo, the collision prevention method may not perform its function satisfactorily. In an optical disc device that operates with a part of its functions suspended for reduced power consumption, the conventional method is not enough to avoid the collision between the lens and the optical disc. By arranging the lens/disc collision prevention mechanism independently operable, it is possible to prevent the collision between the lens and the disc even during the operation with limited functions.

Optical disc device

A disc device includes a lens that focuses a laser light on an optical disc surface, a focus drive unit that drives the lens in a focusing direction, a focus control unit that controls to focus the laser light on the optical disc surface, a focus displacement detecting unit that detects a displaced amount in the focusing direction, a differentiation unit that differentiates a focus displacement detected signal, and a unit that inverts a sign of a differentiated signal, thereby, the disc device is driven intermittently to restrain a motion of an objective lens in a focusing direction and avoid colliding the objective lens with the optical disc surface.

Disc device

A recorder/reproducer for recording and reproducing signals includes a receiver which receives signals, a first recorder which records the signals received by the receiver on a first recording medium, and a first reproducer which reproduces the signals recorded on the first recording medium. A second recorder is provided which records the signals reproduced by the first reproducer on a second recording medium, a detector is provided which detects a commercial message portion from the signals recorded on the second recording medium, and a second reproducer is provided which reproduces the signals recorded on the second recording medium while excluding the commercial message portion detected by the detector.

A recorder/reproducer for recording and reproducing signals such as video and audio signals has first and second recording media. When an input signal is recorded on the first recording medium, it is once recorded on the second recording medium, and a certain time later it is transferred to the first recording medium, thus recorded thereon. During this certain time, other signal processings are made, such as recording/reproduction of other signals and discrimination of commercials from the program itself. In addition, when a signal is reproduced from the first recording medium, the signal is once recorded on the second recording medium, and a certain time later reproduced and supplied, and thus similarly other processings can be made during this certain time.

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Yokohama, Japan

Kouji Fujita