Funai Electric Company Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Tetsuya Shihara

Katsuya Watanabe

Atsuhiko Chikaoka

Harumitsu Miyashita

Naohiro Kimura

Shinichi Kodama

Yoshiki Tanaka

Yasumori Hino

Hiromichi Ishibashi

Toshio Matsumoto

Takeshi Nakajima

Takeharu Yamamoto

Kenji Fujiune

Takashi Kishimoto

Yoshihiro Kanda

Rie Takahashi

Hidemi Takahashi

Shinya Shimizu

Yuu Okada

Hisashi Senga

Akihiko Nishioka

Ryusuke Noda

Mika Hamaoka

Tsuyoshi Eiza

Atsushi Iwamoto

Tatsuya Takeuchi

Takashi Narutani

Koujiro Okamoto

Toru Takeda

Aspects are described for a device comprising a wireless transceiver configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) emission from a source device, an energy-harvesting unit configured to charge the first device wirelessly, using a first part of the RF emission, and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to modulate the first part of the RF emission based on information detected by the device and determine that an energy level of the device is above a threshold. The processor is further configured to transmit, in response to determining that the energy level is above the threshold, using the wireless transceiver, the modulated first part of the RF emission to the source device. The processor is further configured to transmit, in response to determining that the energy level is above the threshold, using the wireless transceiver, a second part of the RF emission wirelessly to another device to charge the other device.

Mesh network for power retransmissions

An fixed form image reading apparatus includes an imaging portion for taking an image of a fixed form image formed in accordance with a predetermined rule so as to deliver image data, a luminance detecting portion that detects an accumulated value of luminance of a plurality of predetermined areas in the fixed form image as reference luminance data, an interpolation coefficient generating portion that generates an interpolation coefficient for performing interpolation so that luminance of the image data of the fixed form image becomes a predetermined level by using the reference luminance data, and a luminance correcting portion that corrects luminance of the image data of the fixed form image based on the interpolation coefficient.

Fixed form image reading apparatus and fixed form image reading method using the same

A device having an imaging function includes: a camera portion to capture optically an image of an object and to output the image as an image data; a display portion to perform an image displaying using the image data from the camera portion; and a control portion to decide a representative figure by extracting features of the image from the image data of a whole photographed screen and to control the display portion so that if a position of the representative figure is changed, the display portion performs an image displaying to which a process corresponding to the change is applied.

Device having imaging function

The present invention provides a disc device capable of normally reproducing recorded information on a disc type recording medium while complementing the recorded information in a damaged portion of the recording medium with complementary information, and capable of constantly holding useful complementary information. The complementary information for complementing the recorded information in the damaged portion of the optical disc is acquired from a server and saved in a storage area of a storing unit, and the recorded information on the optical disc is reproduced while complementing the recorded information in the damaged portion with the complementary information. When a capacity of a free space in the storage area is less than a capacity necessary for saving acquired new complementary information, usefulness of the complementary information is evaluated based on time elapsed from last referenced time, a reference count, and an acquisition required expense for the complementary information saved in the storage area, the complementary information is deleted from the storage area in order of lower usefulness to enlarge the free space, and the new complementary information is saved in the free space.

Disc device

The present invention provides an information reproducing/recording apparatus capable of executing tracking servo normally in short time at the time of loading an information recording medium. At the time of executing a tracking servo process on a BD (Blu-ray Disc)-R capable of recording information selectively on a land track or a groove track during loading of the BD-R, the polarity of a tracking error signal adapted to trace of the land or the groove is temporarily determined on the basis of statistical information indicative of a result of a statistic taken to see which one of the BD-R that records information on the land track and the BD-R that records information on the groove track is more frequently used. On the basis of the tracking error signal of the polarity, an optical pickup is driven to execute tracking servo.

Information reproducing/recording apparatus

An optical pickup device includes: a light source; an objective lens which condenses a light beam that is emitted from the light source on a recording layer of an optical recording medium; and a photo detector which receives reflected light that is reflected by the optical recording medium. Further on an optical path between the light source and the objective lens, a liquid lens which performs correction of spherical aberration by changing state of convergence or divergence of the input light beam and a liquid crystal element on which a plurality of phase shift regions are formed to adjust phase of the input light beam, and which performs correction of the spherical aberration by phase adjustment of the phase shift regions are arranged.

Optical pickup device

A data complementation method including a defective-data confirmation step of confirming if there is address information of defective data, a complementation-data confirmation step of confirming if complementation data is recorded, a complementation-data transmission request step of requesting a recovery server to transmit the complementation data, a complementation-data acquisition step of acquiring the complementation data through a communication network, and a complementation-data record step of recording the complementation data.

Optical disc apparatus and data complementation method

An access unit, an access method, an access program and a control unit are provided. A record medium includes a user area for recording user data which can be recorded and regenerated based on an instruction given by a user. A recording-system circuit section included in the access unit records test data based on a predetermined test condition in the user area. A regeneration-system circuit section included in the access unit reads the test data recorded in the user area by the recording-system circuit section, and a system control circuit included in the access unit refers to the test data read by the regeneration-system circuit section and adjusts an access parameter for accessing the record medium.

Access unit, access method, computer-readable recording medium recorded with access program, and control unit

An optical disk apparatus having an aberration correcting unit for correcting aberrations generated on the recording surface of an optical disk based on received correcting signals, a servo signal generating unit for generating servo signals based on the reflection lights from the optical disk and predefined parameters, and a birefringence detecting unit that detects the degrees of birefringent portions on the recording surface based on received the servo signals and generates the correcting signals for correcting aberrations according to the detected degrees of the birefringent portions and outputs the correcting signals.

Optical disk apparatus

An optical disc drive includes: a motor for rotating an optical disc thereon; a photoelectric transducer for converting a light beam, reflected from or transmitted through the disc, into an electric signal; a clock sync signal reader for extracting and outputting a read signal, representing a clock synchronization mark, from the electric signal; a clock generator for generating a clock signal having a variable frequency; a phase locking controller for controlling the clock generator to synchronize the clock signal in phase with the output signal of the clock sync signal reader; and a mechanism for displacing a light beam spot toward a target track on the disc. During a seek operation of displacing the light beam spot toward the target track, the clock generator is controlled to obtain a frequency to be expected on the target track and output a clock signal having the expected frequency.

Optical disc drive with clock synchronization and rotational speed detection

In an optical disc drive, a laser light source emits a laser beam having an intensity changeable with the amount of drive current supplied. A first photodetector receives the laser beam reflected from an optical disc, thereby generating a readout signal. A second photodetector receives the laser beam, generates an electric signal representing the power of the laser beam received, and outputs the electric signal as a light quantity detection signal. A feedback control loop compares the level of the light quantity detection signal with a predetermined target value and regulates the drive current such that the level of the light quantity detection signal approaches the target value. In reading data from the optical disc, the target value is changed so as to compensate for a variation of the sensitivity of the second photodetector, thereby controlling the power of the laser beam emitted from the laser light source.

Optical disc drive for controlling laser emission

A jitter detection apparatus includes an A/D conversion section for converting an input analog signal into a plurality of discrete multiple value digital signals; a binarization section for performing binarization of the plurality of multiple value digital signals to generate a binary signal; a jitter calculation section for calculating a jitter amount based on an error between a value of a prescribed multiple value digital signal sampled at a time which is substantially the same as a time when the value of the binary signal is changed and a prescribed threshold value; a pattern detection section for detecting patterns of the binary signal before and after the time when the prescribed multiple value digital signal is sampled; and a correction section for correcting the jitter amount based on the detected pattern.

Jitter detection apparatus and jitter detection method

An optical disc drive according to the present invention can read and write data from/on an optical discincluding record tracks to write data thereon and guide tracks for guiding a light beam. The drive includes: an optical pickupwith a converging optical system to focus the light beamand form a spot thereof on the optical discfor reading or writing the data; a tracking control section for controlling the converging optical system of the optical pickupsuch that the light beam spotfollows a selected track on the optical discrotating; and a control unitfor operating the tracking control section in a first mode or in a second mode. In the first mode, the tracking control section makes the light beam spotfollow the recording tracks. In the second mode, the tracking control section makes the light beam spotfollow the guide tracks.

Optical disc drive and method for controlling the same

This invention relates to an optical disk apparatus for optically reproducing information recorded on an information carrier by an optical beam emitted by a light source, the optical disk apparatus comprising: a converging section for directing the optical beam to the information carrier in a converged state; a light detection section for generating a reproduction signal corresponding to the optical beam reflected by or transmitted through the information carrier; a waveform equalization section for varying a frequency characteristic of the reproduction signal generated by the light detection section; a jitter measuring section for measuring a jitter of a signal output from the waveform equalization section; and a minimum jitter value searching section for determining a minimum value of the jitter in an initial area of an X-Y plane defined by a variable x and a variable y which can vary the jitter measured by the jitter measuring section. A PLL circuit is disclosed.

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Osaka, Japan

Tetsuya Shihara