Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Tadashi Maki

Shuichi Watanabe

Masaharu Tanaka

Toshimichi Tokuda

Kazunori Hayashi

Shinichi Shigenaga

Akitoshi Izumi

Hiroyuki Matsumoto

Hirotaka Sawa

Shojiro Matsuo

Hisashi Tsuji

Shintaro Yoshikuni

Teppei Fukuda

Kosuke Shinozaki

Takashi Yoshihara

Kensei Ootsubo

Takashi Hirabara

Keisuke Fujimoto

Hiroyuki Matsuba

Yutaka Miyazono

Tetsuya Matsuzaki

Hirokazu Tasaka

Hideo Yamaguchi

Yoshinobu Ishimoto

Junya Aso

Hiroyuki Ogata

Ryoichi Yuge

Susumu Ono

Shinichi Michiyama

A directionality control system includes: a camera; a microphone provided as a separate body from the camera; a display that displays video data captured by the camera; and a processor that computes a sound collection direction, which is directed from the microphone toward a sound position corresponding to a designated position in the video data. The processor computes the sound collection direction by using parameters including: a first height of the camera from a reference surface, a second height of the microphone from the reference surface, a third height of a computation reference point from the reference surface, the computation reference point being positioned in the sound collection direction at a position different from the sound position, a direction which is directed from the camera toward the sound position, and a fourth height of the sound position from the reference surface.

Directionality control system, calibration method, horizontal deviation angle computation method, and directionality control method

Sound collection directionality is formed toward a location corresponding to a position designated in a video of a predetermined region which is imaged by a camera apparatus with a microphone array apparatus as a reference, and audio data is collected with high accuracy. In a directionality control system (), a signal processing unit () derives a sound collection direction (&#x3b8;,&#x3b8;) which is directed from an installation position of a microphone array apparatus () toward a sound position corresponding to a position designated in video data on a screen of the display device () in response to a user's designation of any position in the video data displayed on the screen. The signal processing unit () forms sound collection directionality of audio data in the derived sound collection direction (&#x3b8;,&#x3b8;).

A recorder receives designation of a video which is desired to be reproduced from a user. If designation of one or more designated locations where sound is emphasized on a screen of a display which displays the video is received by the recorder from the user via an operation unit during reproduction or temporary stopping of the video, a signal processing unit performs an emphasis process on audio data, that is, the signal processing unit emphasizes audio data in directions directed toward positions corresponding to the designated locations from a microphone array by using audio data recorded in the recorder. A reproducing device reproduces the emphasis-processed audio data and video data in synchronization with each other.

Sound processing system and processing method that emphasize sound from position designated in displayed video image

A directivity control apparatus controls a directivity of a sound collected by a sound collecting unit including a plurality of microphones. A beam forming unit forms a beam in a direction from the sound collecting unit toward a sound source corresponding to a position designated in an image on a display unit. A magnification setting unit sets a magnification for magnifying or demagnifying the image in the display according to an input. The beam forming unit also changes a size of the formed beam in accordance with the magnification set by the magnification setting unit.

Directivity control apparatus, directivity control method, storage medium and directivity control system

A touch screen device includes a surface board on which a touch surface is provided. A plurality of first electrodes, extending parallel to each other, are provided on a surface of the surface board opposite to the touch surface. A plurality of second electrodes, extending parallel to each other, are provided such that the first electrodes and the second electrodes are arranged in a grid pattern. First and second protectors respectively protect the first electrodes and the second electrodes. The first protector is provided on a portion of the surface of the surface board on which the first electrodes are provided such that a space is provided between the first electrodes.

Touch screen device and production method thereof

An ink-jet recording device according to the present invention includes: a paper supply tray arranged inward of a predetermined face of a main body to supply recording sheets; a paper display tray arranged inward of the same face as the paper supply tray to receive recording sheets discharged after recording; an ink cartridge loading unit, which is arranged inward of the same face as the paper supply tray, and into which an ink cartridge containing ink used for recording is loaded detachably; and a controller which disables removal of the ink cartridge during a removal inhibited period.

Ink-jet recording device and control method thereof

An inkjet recording apparatus includes (a) a carriage, (b) a recording head mounted to the carriage, (c) a transferring machine for transferring a recording medium, (d) a driving machine for operating the transferring machine, (e) a driving-force-transmitting-machine disposed between the transferring machine and the driving machine, and for transmitting the driving force of the driving machine, (f) a rotary detector mounted to a rotating shaft of any one of rotating members constituting the driving-force-transmitting-machine, and disposed within the height of the driving-force-transmitting-machine, and (g) a detecting sensor for detecting a rotating angle of the rotary detector. In this structure, even if other members hit an element of the driving-force-transmitting-machine, they never hit the rotary detector. Thus the rotary detector is prevented from being damaged or deformed due to shocks.

Inkjet recording apparatus

The present invention provides an ink jet recording apparatus in which many components in a carriage-driving system are unitized into a carriage frame. The apparatus comprises a carriage loaded with a recording head for discharging ink from a plurality of nozzles, a carriage-driving device for driving the carriage, a bendable electric wire, and a carriage frame. The electric wire is bent from an apparatus body and mounted to the recording head and passes a printing signal to the recording head. The carriage frame arranges the carriage, the carriage-driving device, the recording head, and the electric wire at predetermined positions to form a unit. The carriage can reciprocate in parallel with the main scan direction along the longitudinal direction of the carriage frame. As a result, the recording head can be easily replaced, and the apparatus can be maintained without complicated work.

Ink jet recording apparatus

An optical pickup apparatus suited for reducing the size and thickness and capable of performing a tilt control of an objective lens with ease, and an optical disk apparatus. The optical pickup apparatus comprises: an objective lens for focusing a beam emitted from a light source onto an optical disk; a lens holding cylinder for holding the objective lens; wires and elastic tilt members for elastically supporting the lens holding cylinder so that it can be moved; and a yoke base for fixedly supporting the wires and for fixedly supporting magnets, the magnets being adapted to movably drive the lens holding cylinder; wherein the lens holding cylinder has a circular space portion and an almost rectangular opening portion in which the magnets are inserted, the circular space portion being adapted to hold the objective lens and guide the beam emitted from the light source to the objective lens; wherein the wires have one end thereof secured to a suspension holder and the elastic tilt members have one end thereof secured to a nearly central part, with respect to a tangential direction, of the almost rectangular opening portion of the lens holding means; wherein the lens holding cylinder is supported so that it can be pivoted in the tangential direction about the elastic tilt member as a rotating center.

Optical pickup apparatus of tilt control type

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Tadashi Maki