Bose Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Soichiro Hayashi

Akira Mochimaru

Christopher B Ickler

Kenneth Dylan Jacob

Clifford A Henricksen

Paul F Fidlin

David Edwards Blore

Peter C Santoro

Thomas E MacDonald

Yoshio Tanaka

Eiji Yoshino

Eiji Toyoda

Marco Maurizio Panzanella

Masami Simizu

Katsuto Ishii

Hiroyasu Okamura

An imaging apparatus includes a focus detector configured to perform a focus detection based on a signal output from the image sensor corresponding to the first imaging, a calculator configured to calculate a first time corresponding to the second imaging, and a focus controller configured to perform a focus control for driving the focus lens to an in-focus position predicted at the first time based on a focus detection result. The calculator calculates the first time in accordance with whether the aperture control corresponding to the attached lens apparatus is a first aperture control for driving the aperture to a target aperture value via a predetermined aperture value from the aperture value before the aperture control or a second aperture control for driving the aperture to the target aperture value directly from the aperture value before the aperture control.

Imaging apparatus, lens apparatus, and their control methods

An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image sensor; a light shielding member; a thermometer that measures temperature of the image sensor; and a controller that controls the image sensor so as to perform continuous shooting to obtain a plurality of images. The controller determines a number of images to be shot in the continuous shooting, determines, before starting the continuous shooting, whether or not to shoot a black image with the image sensor being shielded from light by the light shielding member based on the temperature measured by the thermometer and the determined number of images to be shot, and in a case where it is determined to shoot a black image, controls to shoot a black image every time an image is shot in the continuous shooting.

Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof

An array is provided that includes a plurality of drivers, each of the same size and type, to transduce processed audio signals into acoustic waves, an input to receive an audio signal and a control signal, and at least one signal processor to provide the processed audio signals in accord with the received audio signal and the control signal. The signal processor receives the audio signal and the control signal, and provides a first processed signal to a first driver based in part upon the audio signal and a first parameter received from the control signal, and provides a second processed signal to a second driver based in part upon the audio signal and a second parameter received from the control signal.

Speaker array systems

An acoustic array system includes a sound field controller and an acoustic transducer array. The sound field controller provides first and second processed signals. The first processed signal is associated with a first acoustic radiation pattern and the second processed signal is associated with a second acoustic radiation pattern. The transducer array receives the first and second processed signals from the sound field controller and produces first and second driver signals for each of the transducers. The first driver signals are based upon the first processed signal and the second driver signals are based upon the second processed signal. The transducer array combines the first and second driver signals for each of the transducers to produce a plurality of combined driver signals, one for each of the transducers, and provides the combined driver signals to the transducers.

Acoustic array systems

A control apparatus includes an acquisition unit (acquirer) which acquires light source information relating to a light source that illuminates an object, a setting unit (setter) which sets correction information of a defocus amount corresponding to the light source information according to an operation by a user, and a memory unit (memory) which stores the light source information and the correction information while being correlated with each other.

Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium which are capable of correcting defocus amount

A loudspeaker includes a horn including a first end panel, a second end panel, a first side panel, and a second side panel. Edges of at least the first and second side panels define a diffraction slot opening. The first and second side panels are each fabricated from a sheet of flexible material held in a stressed, curved shape by at least a rigid support member. The panels are designed by an automated process based on a number of electro-acoustic transducers to be used in a loudspeaker, horizontal and vertical coverage angles for the loudspeaker, and a wall length for a horn of the loudspeaker.

Automated customization of loudspeakers

A modular horn type loudspeaker and a modular horn array formed of modular loudspeakers. An acoustic horn includes a first acoustic module. The first acoustic module includes a first acoustic driver and a first acoustic duct, for conducting acoustic energy from the first acoustic driver. The first acoustic duct has a first opening through which acoustic energy is radiated. The first acoustic duct is characterized by a first centerline. A second acoustic module includes a second acoustic driver and a second acoustic duct, for conducting acoustic energy from the acoustic driver. The second acoustic duct has a second opening through which acoustic energy is radiated. The second acoustic duct is characterized by a second centerline.

Modular acoustic horns and horn arrays

A modular horn type loudspeaker and a modular horn array formed of modular loudspeakers. An acoustic horn includes a first acoustic module. The first acoustic module includes a first acoustic driver and a first acoustic duct, for conducting acoustic energy from the first acoustic driver. The first acoustic duct has a first opening through which acoustic energy is radiated. The first acoustic duct is characterized by a first centerline. A second acoustic module includes a second acoustic driver and a second acoustic duct, for conducting acoustic energy from the acoustic driver. The second acoustic duct has a second opening through which acoustic energy is radiated. The second acoustic duct is characterized by a second centerline. The first module and the second module are configured to be positioned and held in place so that the first and second openings are aligned to form a substantially continuous diffraction slot and so that the first and second centerlines are normal to an arc and intersect at a first one of a plurality of angles.

A horn loudspeaker with gain shading. The horn loudspeaker includes an acoustic horn. The acoustic horn includes side walls, for determining the horizontal dispersion angle of the acoustic horn, top and bottom walls, for determining the vertical dispersion angle of the acoustic horn, and a plurality of acoustic drivers coupled to the acoustic horn by a diffraction slot having segments. Each of the segments is separated from the adjacent segments by less than one half of the wavelength of the highest frequency of the operational range of the horn loudspeaker. The horn loudspeaker further includes circuitry for transmitting an audio signal to the plurality of acoustic drivers, the circuitry comprising a first signal attenuation element electrically coupling an audio signal input element and a first of the acoustic drivers.

Acoustic horn gain managing

A temperature measurement equipment in which the accuracy of temperature measurement is improved by smoothly connecting the characteristic curves measured by two sensors having different characteristics, and dividing the characteristic curve into a plurality of curves, in particular in the vicinity of 4 K., digital processing being performed with a set resolution for each of these divided regions.

Cryogenic measurement equipment

A superconducting system including a superconductive coil and a perpetual current switch connected in parallel therewith in a cryogenic vessel, wherein the perpetual current switch includes a superconductive lead and a heater that causes the superconductive lead to be normal-conductive; and a DC power source that can arbitrarily change the output thereof with respect to the superconductive coil and the perpetual current switch. The system circulates a current of a specified amount within a closed loop constituted by the superconductive coil and the superconductive lead so as to create a perpetual current loop. The system further includes a reference generator unit provided with a current reference value that has a first sweep gradient and changes the superconductive coil current, an established current value such that the superconductive coil current is caused to reach a specified target value, a current reference value that has a second sweep gradient and does not change the superconductive coil current after the arrival thereof at the target value but changes currents that respectively flow into the DC power source and the superconductive lead; and a timing control unit that switches with specified changeover timings the two current reference values and the heater-energizing periods.

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Soichiro Hayashi