Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

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The University of Tokyo

The University of Arizona

Cannon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tadahiro Ohmi

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha & Tadahiro Ohmi

Mamoru Miyawaki

Shunsuke Inoue

Tetsunobu Kohchi

Tetsunobu Kochi

Akira Ishizaki

Shigetoshi Sugawa

Isamu Ueno

Takeshi Ichikawa

Takanori Watanabe

Hiroshi Yuzurihara

Osamu Koyama

Katsumi Kurematsu

Masahiko Okunuki

Yoshio Nakamura

Tetsuya Kaneko

Takeo Tsukamoto

Toshihiko Takeda

Isamu Shimoda

Akira Suzuki

Toru Koizumi

Kenji Suzuki

Akira Akashi

Katsuhisa Ogawa

Hitoshi Oda

Genzo Momma

Toshiki Nakayama

Mahito Shinohara

Yukihiko Sakashita

Hayao Ohzu

Shigeki Kondo

Junichi Hoshi

Takao Yonehara

Kiyofumi Sakaguchi

Katsuhito Sakurai

Osamu Ikeda

Shin Kikuchi

Shigeyuki Matsumoto

Takeo Ono

Ryuichi Arai

Toyoshige Sasaki

Yoshihiko Fukumoto

Yukio Masuda

Kou Yoneda

Takahiko Ishiwatari

Genzo Monma

Tetsunobu Kouchi

Jiang-Rong Cao

Seiji Hashimoto

Robert Andrew Norwood

Masaru Kamio

Nobutoshi Mizusawa

Kazuya Matsumoto

Masaru Sakamoto

Mitsuaki Seki

Jun Kato

Koichi Sono

Yutaka Akino

Yasushi Kawasumi

Palash Gangopadhyay

Hayao Oozu

Alexander Ashton Miles

Daisuke Yoshida

Hidekazu Takahashi

Akiyoshi Suzuki

Saburo Sugawara

Yukuo Nishimura

Hiroshi Suzuki

Noriyuki Nose

Takashi Nakagiri

Akihiro Ouchi

Osamu Hamamoto

Isao Matsubara

Shun Suzuki

Hiroo Akabori

Miyoko Noguchi

Shigetaro Ogura

Toru Nakazawa

Takeo Yamashita

Teruhiko Furushima

Chung-Chieh Yu

Jun Nakayama

Hisayuki Shimada

Moriyuki Okamura

Ryosuke Shibasaki

Koichi Yamagishi

Uuichi Handa

Hiroyuki Shinoda

Yutaka Genchi

Shigeki Shimomura

Dinesh Manandhar

Shabnam Virji-Khalfan

Nobutoshi Mizasawa

Toru Koizuki

Takaaki Kamigaki

Mitsuru Ito

Atsushi Matsubayashi

Seki Inoue

Liang Guirong

An information processing apparatus comprises a processor configured to execute a program so as to: acquire viewpoint information, motion information and object information; process an object image wherein: the object image is an image representing a virtual substance and is updated based on the viewpoint information and the motion information; calculate a position when superimposing a background image and the object image, wherein: the background image is an image according to the field of view of the user; generate visual information superimposing the background image and the object image based on the position calculated, and output the generated visual information to a display device; and generate tactile information for an ultrasound generator irradiating the user with ultrasound corresponding to the object based on the position calculated, the motion information and the object information, and output the generated tactile information to the ultrasound generator.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable media storing a program

The present invention sequentially and repeatedly accepts a plurality of types of information that can change with time, including position information obtained using a satellite signal, and correlates and records the accepted plurality of types of information with time information.

Position information processing system and position information processing apparatus

A method of purifying a nanodiamond powder includes preparing the nanodiamond powder, heating the nanodiamond powder at between 450&#xb0; C. and 470&#xb0; C. in an atmosphere including oxygen, performing a hydrochloric acid treatment on the heated nanodiamond powder, and performing a hydrofluoric acid treatment on the nanodiamond powder obtained after performing the hydrochloric acid treatment.

Method of purifying nanodiamond powder and purified nanodiamond powder

A driving circuit for driving a light modulator including a matrix of pixels, the driving circuit includes, a first selecting unit configured to select a row of the matrix of pixels, each pixel having a capacitance element for modulating light; a first transistor configured to reset a voltage of the capacitance element in the selected row; a second selecting unit configured to select a column of the matrix of pixels, information being written in the capacitance element specified by the first and second selecting unit; and a second transistor, the information being written in the capacitance element through the second transistor.

Driving circuit for light modulator

An apparatus to acquire information about light-field data includes: a beam splitter configured to split light, through a lens unit which is connected to the apparatus, from an object into a first light beam and a second light beam; an image sensor configured to detect the first light beam to form an image of the object; and a light-field sensor, including a lenslet array and a detecting unit to detect the second light beam through the lenslet array, configured to acquire information about the light-field data, the lenslet array including a plurality of lenslets, wherein a first position where the detecting unit is provided is conjugate to a second position of a pupil of the lens unit.

Apparatus and method for acquiring information about light-field data

A light modulator includes a band-pass filter configured to select a wavelength of an incident light; a first layer; a second layer configured to include a trench with a bottom surface, a side surface, and a top surface; a thin metal film provided on the side surface of the trench of the second layer; and a dielectric layer provided between the first and second layers at the bottom and the top surfaces of the trench. An electric field is applied to the dielectric layer by using the first and second layers. The dielectric layer is provided between the thin metal film and the first layer at the side surface of the second layer so that the thin metal film has an anisotropic permittivity due to the electric field.

Light modulator

A matrix substrate having plural switching elements provided in matrix corresponding to intersecting points of scanning lines and signal lines, plural picture element electrodes connected to the switching elements, and horizontal circuits and vertical circuits for inputting the signals to the switching elements comprises a horizontal scanning circuit for sampling a picture data based on digital picture signals, a latch circuit for memorizing the data synchronously with output from the horizontal scanning circuit, a D/A converter for converting the output from the latch circuit into analog signals, plural signal transfer switches provided between the D/A converter and the signal lines, and a selection circuit for selecting at least one of the signal transfer switches. A liquid crystal device comprises the matrix substrate, a counter substrate opposing to the matrix substrate and a liquid crystal material placed between the matrix substrate and the counter substrate.

Matrix substrate and display which inputs signal-polarity inverting signals to picture data

A method for a compressive sampling to capture an image of the object by using a spatial light modulator and a photo-detector, the method includes driving the spatial light modulator in a first rough sampling mode which is executed by using first coded patterns; detecting signals from the photo-detector to obtain a first data at t=t; detecting signals from the photo-detector to obtain a second data at t=t, where t&#x3e;t; and changing the first rough sampling mode to a second rough sampling mode which is executed by using second coded patterns finer than the first coded patterns when a difference between the first data and the second data is greater than a threshold value.

Apparatus and method for compressive sampling

A method and apparatus for reducing speckle noise in an image of an object are disclosed. The method includes, placing the object in an interferometer at a first position along a beam path of an object beam, irradiating the object with the object beam, moving the object from the first position to a second position by longitudinally shifting the object along the beam path of the object beam, irradiating the object with the object beam at the second position. At each of the first and second positions a holographic image formed by interference between the object beam and a reference beam is recorded. An object image with reduced speckle noise is obtained by averaging the holographic images. Either an arithmetic mean or a weighted average may be used in the averaging of the holographic images.

Speckle noise reduction based on longitudinal shift of sample

Image signals input via input terminals are selected by a selector. The selected image signals are combined and displayed on the same screen of a display device. The display screen includes one main screen and a plurality of sub screens. In the case where a moving image is displayed on the main screen, images displayed on the sub screens are updated when the moving image displayed on the main screen are in a still state. The modes of the image signals are detected only when they are input for the first time, the process performed upon the image signals input after that is controlled in accordance with information stored in a memory.

Image display device and method for displaying an image on the basis of a plurality of image signals

A colored light source apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes light sources corresponding to active regions defined by defects in a photonic crystal structure, wherein the photonic crystal structure is based on periodic structures. The apparatus also includes a waveguide, a first electrode, and a second electrode. Varying electrical properties between the first and second electrodes stimulates radiation production in the active regions, wherein the radiation is at least partially coupled to and guided by the waveguide.

Light-emitting photonic device

A method of manufacturing a periodic grating structure for a component. The method includes forming first structured layer including a final periodic grating structure of a first material and a second material filling spaces between individual features of the final periodic grating structure, removing the second material using a first chemical process and annealing a portion of the first material into a third material using a second chemical process.

Method for manufacturing layered periodic structures

A grating for an optical device. The grating includes a working area comprising a periodic grating structure and a non-working area comprising a support structure for mating with an additional component of the optical device. The support structure supports the additional component in order to prevent strains from developing in the grating. The strains may come from physical stresses applied to the optical device during manufacturing or use or may come from changes in the temperature of the optical device. The support structure may operate by providing an element whose width to height ratio is greater than a width to height ratio of the elements in the grating structure. The support structure may also operate by being higher than the working area of the grating. Furthermore, the non-working area of the grating may include alignment marks used during the manufacturing of the optical device.

Layered periodic structures with peripheral supports

A display apparatus for displaying video information by superimposing a plurality of images obtained through a plurality of display systems, each being constituted by a light source, a reflection type liquid crystal panel and an optical system, characterized in that the apparatus comprises at least either of system selection means for selecting at least one of the plurality of display systems and modifying means for modifying the attributes of the image obtained through one of the display systems.

Video information display system and display apparatus applicable to the same

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Mamoru Miyawaki