Sony Corporation

Sony Corpotation

Yuasa Corporation, Both of

Naoki Kamaya

Hiroaki Sato

Toshio Takeshita

Yoichi Miyajima

Tomonori Watanabe

Mieko Hara

Yoshiki Shirochi

Seizi Sato

Toshiyuki Yamauchi

Hiroyuki Shiota

Hirokazu Nakayoshi

Takanori Maruichi

Naoki Okayama

Hiroshi Mamiya

Masahiko Sato

Atsushi Takahashi

Kazuhiko Suzuki

Yukio Yamada

Akinari Mori

Hidero Mitsui

Yoshisada Okayasu

Masaki Orihashi

Koichi Wada

Akira Kumano

Katsutoshi Amano

Hiroaki Itoh

Tooru Akutagawa

Junya Endo

Seisuke Ohba

Koichi Nishimura

Junichi Iwasawa

Yuu Sasaki

Renjiro Okano

Toshiki Takekuma

Hiroshi Mamiya, Deceased

Yoshiyuki Umehara

Kazuo Yamakawa

Hiroshi Kagawa

Katsuji Ashida

Takeo Minomiya

Akiro Saito

Yoshinori Ida

Hideo Horie

Ryuichi Yasuhara

A battery is provided. The battery includes a battery enclosure that includes opposing top and bottom sides in a height direction, opposing left and right sides in a width direction, and opposing front and rear sides in a length direction. A first engaging portion extends in the length direction. A first lower surface is positioned on a plane between the top side and the bottom side in the height direction. A first rib is provided between a plane of the first engaging portion and the plane of the first lower surface in the height direction. A first upper surface is positioned on a plane between the top side and the bottom side in the height direction. A first wall is provided between the plane of the first lower surface and the plane of the first upper surface in the height direction.

Battery device, electronic apparatus, and battery system

Disclosed is a battery device including a battery enclosure incorporating a battery cell. The battery device further includes an output terminal that outputs power of the battery cell. The battery enclosure includes a first surface, a second surface, a first step surface, a second step surface, a first engaging portion, a second engaging portion, a first groove, and a second groove formed in the second step surface and the second engaging portion, and a recess is provided in at least one of the first step surface and the second step surface.

A battery to hold a battery cell can include a first surface, an end surface forming a corner edge with the first surface along an edge of the first surface in a lateral direction, and an output terminal provided at the corner edge formed by the end surface and the first surface. The output terminal can include electrode slits that are opened to both the end surface and the first surface, and the electrode slits include electrodes to output power from the battery cell. First and second grooves can be provided in the first surface that extend away from the corner edge, where the output terminal is provided between the grooves in the lateral direction. Step surfaces can be provided that are stepped with respect to the first surface, and that include chamfered portions.

There is provided a camera-shake correction mechanism by which camera shaking is corrected for by moving an imaging device on a plane that is orthogonal to an optical axis and in directions that are mutually orthogonal. The mechanism includes a heat dissipating mechanism that diffuses heat from the imaging device into atmosphere from a rear surface of the imaging device.

Camera shake correction mechanism and image capture apparatus, including heat dissipating mechanism

A secondary battery for electronic appliance to be installed in an electronic appliance, thereby feeding an electric power to the electronic appliance is disclosed, which includes a cell stack of plural battery cells in each of which a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte are accommodated in a pack, and a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal from the positive electrode and the negative electrode, respectively are lead out from the same side face of the pack, the battery cells being stacked such that the respective positive electrode terminals and negative electrode terminals are faced in the same direction; a metallic battery can in which one opening from which the cell stack is inserted is formed and which accommodates the cell stack therein such that the side face from which the respective positive electrode terminals and negative electrode terminals are lead out is faced towards the opening side; and a lid made of a synthetic resin in which terminal parts to be connected to the electrodes of the electronic appliance upon being connected to the respective positive electrode terminals and negative electrode terminals and being faced outwardly are provided and which plugs the opening of the battery can.

Secondary battery

A recording/reproducing apparatus and control method thereof capable of easily recording and reproducing all kinds of information obtained from broadcasts, communications and recording mediums of all types, and further capable of applying suitable restrictions on use of digital information. A hard disk drive and a video recorder/player can both record information reproduced by a DVD player and information received by a satellite tuner. When restrictions on recording such as billing conditions or limits on the number of recordings were placed in the control data, such restrictions are recorded as the discriminator ID. When the videotape cassette is then extracted from the video recorder/player, the discriminator ID is decoded and, all or a portion of the recorded contents of the hard disk identical to the information recorded on the videotape are deleted as needed. The unlimited distribution or unlimited retention of the contents recorded on the hard disk is in this way prevented, and problems such as involving copyrights are eliminated.

Recording/reproducing apparatus and control method thereof

An imaging system includes left and right display panels arranged so as to be viewed separately by left and right eyes of a viewer. A three dimensional video signal is supplied to a drive circuit for the display panels such that image data from the three dimensional video signal is supplied alternately to the left and right display panels. The display panels are of a memory effect LCD type such that, when no image data is received by the display panel, the image data of the previously received field is maintained on display for providing flickerless imaging.

Stereoscopic imaging systems using memory affect liquid crystal displays

An image projecting apparatus is so constructed as to generate a stereoscopic-image signal having images for right and left eyes alternatively arranged for each field, decompose an image produced by the stereoscopic-image signal into lights with predetermined components, divide the lights into first and second groups, assign the first group to a first polarized light having the directions of polarization different from each other for each period of a video field, assign the second group to a second polarized light having the directions of polarization different from each other for each period of a video field and having a direction of polarization different from that of the first polarized light, and project the first and second polarized lights, the second polarized light being delayed by one video field with respect to the first polarized light.

Image projecting apparatus

An image display system stereoscopically reproduces a visual scene and includes an image display unit with a pair of LCD panels each starting its operation in response to a start pulse received every vertical field of an input video signal; a source of input video signals representing right and left stereoscopic video images every field; a circuit for generating right and left start pulses, which are mutually in an opposite-phase relationship, in synchronism with the arrival of the right and left video images; and a driver for driving the pair of LCD panels by the right and left start pulses. The image display unit is shaped into a virtual viewer incorporated in a ski-goggle type frame which is adapted to be worn on a user's head. The video images displayed on the two LCD panels are refreshed alternately to obtain a flickerless image without the necessity of employing any particular circuit or terminal.

Image display system

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Tokyo, Japan

Naoki Kamaya