Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

Institute for Personalized Information Environment

Norikazu Saito

Minoru Utsumi

Hiroyuki Obata

Makoto Matsuo

Hiroshi Mohri

Shunsuke Mukasa

Chihaya Ogusu

Yoshiaki Kudo

Takashi Aono

Masato Koike

Hideaki Amano

Satoshi Yoshizawa

Tadahiro Ishida

Makoto Hirose

Fumihiko Mizukami

Toshiro C Watanabe

Tetsuya Matsuyama

Hiroshi Funada

Makoto Aoyagi

Yutaka Hidai

Tetsuya Yoshimura

Masajiro Fukunaga

Nobuo Asahi

Hirosi Iizuka

Hisao Miyauchi

Takashi Kayamori

Katsumi Kunihara

Tadashi Hoshiai

An image forming method is provided to attain a higher security for preventing forgery and falsification of information by using an optical diffraction structure. In a body () whereupon a layer is to be transferred, printing information () is recorded. On the body (), a layer () including a hologram and a diffraction lattice provided on an optical diffraction structure transfer sheet () is transferred, and an image including recorded printing information () and optical diffraction structures () is formed. The layer () including the optical diffraction structure is transferred so that the diffraction lattice () to be transferred forms diffraction lattice information () showing a prescribed regularity in a corresponding relationship between the printing information ().

Image forming method and recorded matter

In the information recording an reproducing method and apparatus according to the present invention, a piece of picture image information is recorded as an analog quantity or a digital quantity an information carrying medium in a planar manner at a high density, charge potential is read for outputting electric signals to correspond to the recorded picture image information and then the outputted signals are printed out by means of various display unit or output device, with high quality and high resolution as well as ease processing of the information. The information carrying medium provides a long period of storage of information and enables stored picture image information to be repeatedly reproduced with a picture quality according to need. Particularly, it is, according to the present invention, possible to read and output local potential of an information carrying medium with predetermined scanning density at a desired time, and so pictures of high quality may be output as a silver salt photograph is taken and reproduced by optically scanning the film. Thus, the present invention may be applied to a wide field including photographing, copying and printing.

Method for recording and reproducing information, apparatus therefor and recording medium

Color imaging system with selectively openable optical shutter

In the information recording an reproducing method and apparatus according to the present invention, picture image information is recorded as an analog quantity or a digital quantity on an information carrying medium in a planar manner at a high density, charge potential is read for outputting electric signals to correspond to the recorded picture image information and then the outputted signals are printed out by means of various display unit or output device, with high quality and high resolution as well as ease processing of the information. The information carrying medium provides a long period of storage of information and enables stored picture image information to be repeatedly reproduced with a picture quality according to need. Particularly, it is, according to the present invention, possible to read and output local potential of an information carrying medium with predetermined scanning density at a desired time, and so pictures of high quality may be output as a silver salt photograph is taken and reproduced by optically scanning the film. Thus, the present invention may be applied to a wide field including photographing, copying and printing.

Method for recording and reproducing information, apparatus therefor and

An architecture providing a human interface includes a user input device, a studio or workplace receiving an output of the user input device, the studio being capable of storing and sharing information, and a plurality of agents or functional modules connected to supply/receive data from the studio. The agents are connected in parallel and perform processing as distributed and cooperative processing of functions by the user. The agents are independent components having independent functions performing processing on data in the studio to receive and store items of information, respectively, from and to the studio as a shared information medium, the studio being accessible to the user and to the plurality of agents. Each of the plurality of agents can be independently started depending upon a status of the studio.

Information processing unit having function modules independently

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Tokyo, Japan

Norikazu Saito