Minolta Company, Ltd.

Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takashi Kondo

Mitsuharu Yoshimoto

Yutaka Shigemura

Yukihiro Ito

Junichi Oura

Satoshi Yano

Hideo Umezawa

Hideo Hotomi

Koichi Kamon

Fumiya Yagi

Eiichi Ide

Keizou Ochi

Katsuyuki Nanba

Sadafusa Tsuji

Hiroshi Uchino

Isao Hayami

Tokuji Ishida

Takashi Iida

Masaaki Nakai

Toshio Norita

Yoshihiro Hara

Kenji Ishibashi

Toshihiko Ishimura

Masatoshi Itoh

Takehiro Katoh

Yoshifumi Okauchi

Yoshitake Miyoshi

Takashi Miyake

Hidenori Fukuoka

Katsuhiko Asai

Takeya Tsukamoto

Nobuo Hashimoto

Koichi Kohriyama

Hiroshi Yoshino

Kazuaki Okumura

Yasuo Nakanishi

Hiroshi Hirata

Nobuyuki Taniguchi

Takeshi Suzuki

Yoshiaki Hata

Yoshinobu Kudo

Hiromu Mukai

Akihito Ikegawa

Hiroyuki Okada

Shinya Matsuda

Masayuki Ueyama

Takeshi Hashimoto

Koji Fujiwara

Masahiko Matsuura

Seiichi Shirasaki

Takashi Matsuo

Osamu Toyama

Hitoshi Hagimori

Atsuto Hirai

Satoshi Deishi

Tomoo Izumi

Kiyofumi Hashimoto

Akira Sato

Naoki Masazumi

Minoru Kuwana

Eiro Fujii

Hideo Kajita

Eiji Yamakawa

Katsuhiko Takeda

Tetsuro Kanbara

Motohiro Nakanishi

Makoto Miyazaki

Masanobu Takahashi

Hideaki Nakanishi

Shuji Yoneda

Hiroyuki Yamasaki

Kiyoshi Hayashi

Shinichi Ban

Daigo Yoshioka

Shigeaki Imai

Kazuhiko Kojima

Hideki Tanabe

Yujiro Mima

Hiroyuki Tsumazawa

Hideyuki Kanbayashi

Makiko Mandai

Shingo Asai

Shigeaki Tochimoto

Atsushi Kuwada

Koji Sugie

Shinji Mishima

A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet regulation member, a lock portion, and a damper portion. The sheet regulation member is changeable between a regulation posture to regulate a sheet supported on a supporting portion not to enter a separation nip portion and a retracted posture to allow the sheet to enter the separation nip portion. The lock portion locks the sheet regulation member in the regulation posture. In a case where external force equal to or more than a predetermined amount is applied to the sheet regulation member toward the downstream in the sheet feeding direction with the sheet regulation member is locked by the lock portion in the regulation posture, the damper portion allows displacement of the sheet regulation member.

Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus

A sheet feeding apparatus capable of lifting a feed roller at low cost without increasing size thereof and an image forming apparatus including the same are proposed. A sheet fed from a rotary feed member is conveyed by a rotary conveyance member while being separated one by one by a rotary separation member being in contact with the rotary conveyance member. The rotary feed member is moved between a standby position above the sheet and an abutment position where the rotary feed member abuts with the sheet by a lifting portion. The lifting portion includes an actuation member moving a holding portion up and down and a drive member driving the actuation member. The actuation member is disposed on a second shaft, which is configured to rotate the rotary separation member.

A sheet feeding apparatus includes a first sheet storage portion and a second sheet storage portion disposed side by side with the first sheet storage portion. The sheet feeding device includes a sheet bundle moving member configured to transfer sheets in the second sheet storage portion to the first sheet storage portion and a pickup roller configured to feed the sheet by abutting against the sheet stored in the first sheet storage portion. When transferring the sheet bundle in the second sheet storage portion to the first sheet storage portion, the pickup roller is rotated in the same direction as that during feeding.

Sheet feeding apparatus

A data distributing system wherein an electronic book data storage center which is stored with a plurality of pieces of book data is capable of communicating with electronic book vending machinesvia a communication line and/or a communication satellite. In each of the vending machines, a storage medium can be inserted. The vending machine selects a piece of book data, which may be desired by the user, based on data stored in the storage medium as data to be to recorded into the storage medium. The user himself or herself can select a piece of book data. Also, the recorded data can be deleted from the storage medium in compliance with the user's request. These vending machines may have a function of casting accounts.

Data distributing system and data recording method

A display device which has a liquid crystal display which has a plurality liquid crystal pixels arranged in a matrix and which writes an image thereon after resetting the liquid crystal. The method of writing on the liquid crystal display can be selected from driving methods according to interlace scanning in which a frame is divided into a plurality of fields and writing by interlace scanning is performed and driving methods according to sequential scanning in which scanning lines are subjected to writing serially. When high-speed writing is required, for example, when display of a motion picture, display of inputted letters or scroll display is desired, one of the driving methods according to interlace scanning is selected. In interlace scanning, based on the end of a blackout state of a scanning line in a field, selection of a scanning line in the next field for writing is started. Writing on a scanning line comprises a reset step of resetting the liquid crystal, a selection step of selecting the final state of the liquid crystal, an evolution step of stabling the liquid crystal into the selected state, and one of the length of the reset step and the total length of the selection step and the evolution step is n times (n: natural number) the other. For example, when the length of the reset step is n times the total length of the selection step and the evolution step and when a frame is divided into m fields (m: natural number larger than n) for interlace scanning, there is a moment when, in serial m scanning lines, n scanning lines of them are in the reset step, one of them is in the selection step or in the evolution step, and the other m-n-1 scanning lines are in a display step.

Liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal display driven by interlace scanning and/or sequential scanning

An electronic catalogue system which, for easy sensory recognition of the size of a commercial product which is displayed in an electronic catalogue, displays on one screen the image of the commercial product together with the image of an article for comparison which is for comparing and notifying the size comprises: a communication control part which reads three-dimensional data DTA regarding the commercial product and three-dimensional data DTB regarding the article for comparison; an observation image generating part which generates the image of the commercial product and the image of the article for comparison based on thus read three-dimensional data DTA regarding the commercial product and three-dimensional data DTB regarding the article for comparison; and a displaying part which displays the generated images.

Electronic catalogue system, server, and medium for displaying on one screen images of a commercial product and articles for comparison

A measuring section for measuring a three-dimensional shape of an object by scanning the object, and a display section for displaying information about an area where the scanning has been already completed in accordance with the progress of the scanning are provided. Thus, an image for clarifying the area where the scanning has been already completed and an area where the scanning has not been completed yet is displayed, and the progressing status of the scanning can be grasped accurately by a user.

Three-dimensional shape measuring system

A system comprises a two-dimensional photographing device and a three-dimensional measuring device that is removably attached to the two-dimensional photographing device. The two-dimensional photographing device and the three-dimensional measuring device can communicate with each other. Information indicating an operating condition of one of the devices is transmitted to the other device, which receives the information and sets own operating condition in accordance with the received information for photographing or measuring.

Imaging system, two-dimensional photographing device and three-dimensional measuring device

A display device which has a liquid crystal display which has a plurality liquid crystal pixels arranged in a matrix and which writes an image thereon after resetting the liquid crystal. The method of writing on the liquid crystal display can be selected from driving methods according to interlace scanning in which a frame is divided into a plurality of fields and writing by interlace scanning is performed and driving methods according to sequential scanning in which scanning lines are subjected to writing serially. When high-speed writing is required, for example, when display of a motion picture, display of inputted letters or scroll display is desired, one of the driving methods according to interlace scanning is selected. In interlace scanning, based on the end of a blackout state of a scanning line in a field, selection of a scanning line in the next field for writing is started. Writing on a scanning line comprises a reset step of resetting the liquid crystal, a selection step of selecting the final state of the liquid crystal, an evolution step of stabling the liquid crystal into the selected state, and one of the length of the reset step and the total length of the selection step and the evolution step is n times (n: natural number) the other. For example, when the length of the reset step is n times the total length of the selection step and the evolution step and when a frame is divided into m fields (m: natural number larger than n) for interlace scanning, there is a moment when, in serial m scanning lines, n scanning lines of them are in the reset step, one of them is in the selection step or in the evolution step, and the other m&#x2212;n&#x2212;1 scanning lines are in a display step.

An information display device which is structured as an electronic book with liquid crystal displays which display information stored in a storage medium. The information display device further has a first driving section which drives the liquid crystal displays and a second driving section which drives the recording medium, and while the displays are reset, the second driving section is inhibited from driving the storage medium. Also, the information display device has a speaker, and when a mode to display information on the liquid crystal displays at a high speed is selected, the speaker is inhibited from reproducing sound.

Information display device and information display method

An object is to provide a three-dimensional data input apparatus that enables data currently required by the user to be easily extracted from the stored past three-dimensional data, shooting position data or shooting direction data. When the user provides the three-dimensional measuring devicewith a measurement instruction, the portions operate through control by the central processing portionto obtain the three-dimensional data SS and the two-dimensional image data SN of the object Q. The group of the three-dimensional data SS, the two-dimensional image data SN, the position data SP and the attitude data SA that are in the one-to-one correspondence with one another as described above are stored in the storage portionevery time the three-dimensional data of the object Q is measured. In a case where a fixed point observation of the object is repetitively performed by use of the three-dimensional measuring deviceby extracting from the storage portionthree-dimensional data SSK and two-dimensional image data SNK obtained in the past and comparing them with the present three-dimensional data SSG and two-dimensional image data SNG, the change in the configuration of the object during that period can be found.

Three-dimensional data input apparatus

Method and apparatus for measuring three dimensional information of a target placed in an interior space of a rotator type mirror by using the rotator type mirror in combination with an imaging apparatus disposed with its light receiving axis aligned with a center axis of the rotator type mirror. The invention includes projecting reference light toward the rotator type mirror from a position on the center axis, and scanning the target with mirror reflected reference light that is produced by reflecting the reference light on the rotator type mirror. The invention further includes obtaining the three dimensional information of the target, based on a physical quantity corresponding to the projection angle of the reference light and on a physical quantity corresponding to the position of a projected image obtained when the mirror reflected reference light that scanned the target is captured by the imaging apparatus via the rotator type mirror.

Three dimensional information measurement method and apparatus

An image is displayed on a monitor after recognizing, based on 3-D data obtained by measuring an object in three dimensions, an error region which is an unmeasurable portion of the object in a measured range. A partial image is extracted corresponding to the error region from a 2-D image obtained by imaging the object. Then the partial image is highlighted on the display. This allows the operator to elect to use, or not, the image in forming a 3-D model of the imaged object, e.g., the face of the operator.

Monitor display apparatus

An electronic camera is provided with an image pickup unit in a casing at a position opposite to an opening of the casing. The image pickup unit includes an image pickup device and an optical system. The electronic camera is further provided with a rotating mechanism for rotating the image pickup unit, a changer for changing over a photographing possible state and a photographing impossible state, and a controller for controlling the rotating mechanism to rotate the image pickup unit into a target position in response to the changer.

Electronic camera and image processing system

In a distance measuring apparatus having a projector that projects pulse light P outside and a light receiver that receives the pulse light being reflected in the outside and performs photoelectric conversion, and outputting measurement data DL responsive to a time Tf from the transmission point of time to the reception point of time of the pulse light, the following are provided: determining means for determining whether a received light waveform DP is correct or includes at least two incorrect waveforms based on an output signal SP of the light receiver ; and warning data outputting means for outputting warning data DE responsive to the result of the determination when the determining means determines that the received light waveform DP is incorrect.

Distance measuring apparatus

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Takashi Kondo