Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Konica Corporation

Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd.

Itaro Horiuchi & Co., Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Harmonic Drive Systems Inc.

Osaka Seimitsu Kikai Co., Ltd.

Osaka, Katsuyuki

Honda, Toshio

Osaka Seimitsu Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Co.

Toshio Honda

Nagaaki Ohyama

Junpei Tsujiuchi

Susumu Kikuchi

Satoshi Shinohara

Shigeto Ikeda

Eric Badique

Tetsuji Kametani

Tatsuo Nagasaki

Yasuhiro Komiya

Seiichiro Hiratsuka

Kazuyoshi Tanaka

Kensuke Sekihara

Masahiro Yamaguchi

Takayuki Saito

Yasuo Ohtsubo

Katsuyuki Okada

Hideyoshi Asai

Nagaaki Oyama

Mitsuo Suzuki

Zenji Wakimoto

Hideaki Haneishi

Kei Shimura

Toshiro Ohhashi

By transmitting function information indicative of functions of a game machine manipulation device CT , previously stored therein, to a game machine main body with a command from the game machine main body , it is possible to retrieve functions of the game machine manipulation device CT required for the game machine main body and to set the retrieved functions of the game machine manipulation device CT in the game machine manipulation device CT . Further, by transmitting function information indicative of consumed power of respective response means of the game machine manipulation device CT , which is previously stored in the game machine manipulation device CT , to the game machine main body with a command from the game machine main body , it is possible to determine response means required for the game machine main body and a power value to be applied to the response means, and to set the determined information to the response means of the game machine manipulation device CT

Game apparatus, game machine manipulation device, game system and interactive communication method for game apparatus

A portable electronic device has a connector for being connected to a master having a program executing function, microcomputer , which has a program memory for storing a program, for controlling execution of the program, and a storage (not shown) for storing event occurrence, wherein an event that has been stored in the storage is transferred to the master in response to a request from the master.

Portable electronic device and entertainment system

In a vibration-resistant interferometer, an interference fringe image obtained by an image capturing means is analyzed and an optical path difference between a reference light component and an object light component is maintained at a predetermined value with reference to the result of this analysis, thereby making its optical system simple in structure, easy to adjust, and inexpensive to manufacture and maintain. A Fizeau-type interferometer, a CCD camera for viewing an interference fringe, a computer for analyzing the interference fringe image information obtained by the CCD camera to calculate the shape of the sample surface or the amount of vibration or inclination of the sample surface, and a PZT driving circuit for transmitting predetermined driving signals to PZTs are provided.

Vibration-resistant interferometer

A technique for estimating an unsampled color data on the basis of plural color data sampled by a line image sensor. The sensor includes at least two types of color filters such as a red filter and a green filter. Those filters are alternately arranged pixel by pixel in a line of pixels so that A-type color data which corresponds to green data is sampled from a target pixel and plural B-type color data which correspond to red data are sampled from neighbor pixels neighboring the target pixel. An unsampled B-type color data of the target pixel is estimated by synthesizing the sampled A-type color data of the target pixel and the sampled B-type color data of the neighbor pixels.

Image reading apparatus

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for producing a hologram from a series of two-dimensional images horizontally different in line of sight from each other. The holographic apparatus employs original images produced by photographing an object from different directions, an object optical system which makes a light be incident upon original image to project an object beam onto photo-sensitive material, and a reference optical system which projects a reference beam of a same wavelength as the object beam toward the photo-sensitive material. The horizontal component of the object beam can be converged at a rear point i.e., a point of view at image reproduction, relatively distant from the photo-sensitive material on which a hologram is produced. When the hologram is reconstructed, a beam having the same wavelength as when recorded is converged at the rear point of view, so that the reconstructed image can be viewed in a same color free from any color shading.

Three-dimensional multiplex hologram

The peripheral teeth of a gear body are made of alloy tool steel and coated with a manganese-phosphate-treated layer and then with a solid lubricating film. The alloy tool steel of which the teeth of the gear body cooperates with the manganese phosphate layer to act on the solid lubricating film. The taking-in force of the solid lubricating film can be thus increased at the surface thereof. The bonding strength of the solid lubricating film can be increased as well. This can prevent the solid lubricating films on teeth of the two gear bodies engaged from being separated from each other.

Gear for use in vacuum space

A process and an apparatus for measuring the biocurrent distribution call for initially assuming a number of multiple currents which is more than the number of isolated currents possibly existing in a living body and calculating the virtual magnetic field created by the assumed currents at actual measuring points. The estimated location and current vectors of said assumed currents are consecutively changed to decrease the difference between said virtual and actual magnetic fields so that the estimated location and current vectors of the assumed currents having the number corresponding to the true isolated currents substantially approximate the true values and the estimates of the other assumed currents approximate zero. This enables the biocurrent distribution to be exactly determined even when the number of isolated currents is not preliminarily known.

Process and apparatus for determining the biocurrent distribution of a

An optical apparatus which can reproduce an image having a large focal depth without losing resolution and luminance, wherein there is inputted a plurality of images focused on different object planes. A plurality of input images are then weighted and added together. Image recovery processing of the thus added images is then performed.

Optical image input/output apparatus for objects having a large focal

An image input/output apparatus which can reproduce an image having a large focal depth, without decreasing the resolution and luminance. The apparatus has a wide range of practical applications, and can be, easily, quickly and exactly put to practical use. The apparatus includes a mechanism for inputting a plurality of images focused on different object planes, circuitry for Fourier-transforming the images input by the inputting mechanism circuitry for weighting and adding the images Fourier-transformed by the Fourier-transforming circuitry, and circuitry for performing an inverse Fourier transform of Fourier spectrum images obtained by the weighting and adding circuitry.

Image input/output apparatus

A method of reading image wherein an original image is read with two different sampling intervals, and undesirable signal components are removed from the read image signals. An apparatus for reading image wherein an original image is read with different sampling intervals by reading devices of two systems; outputs of the reading devices are A/D converted and subjected to an orthogonal function transformation; a converted signal of smaller absolute value is subjected to an inverse orthogonal function transformation to produce a read image signal.

Method and apparatus for reading image

The method of detecting corresponding regions between a plurality of pictue images includes respective steps of standardizing the concentration values of respective picture image signals in the operation object regions of a plurality of picture images so that an influence such as the dispersion of the concentration and brightness may be corrected, operating the correlation in the actual fields of the operation object regions and detecting the set of regions in which the operated correlation value is a maximum. The apparatus for realizing this method includes a standardizing device for standardizing the concentration values of respective picture image signals in the operation object regions of a plurality of picture images so that the influence such as the dispersion of the concentration and brightness may be corrected, a correlation operating device for operates the correlations in the actual fields of the operation object regions. A corresponding region detecting device detects the set of regions in which the correlation value operated by the correlation operating device is a maximum.

Method and apparatus for detecting corresponding regions between picture

A correlation operational apparatus for multi-dimensional images includes: means for reducing at least two-dimensional components of the multi-dimensional images composed of at least two components by at least one component by projecting a vector representing the image onto a space perpendicular to a vector representing a large variance of distribution of the multi-dimensional image in a vector space whose orthogonal axes represent the individual dimensional component values of the multi-dimensional image; and means for performing a correlation operation for each component on the multi-dimensional images whose dimensional components have been reduced by at least one. In consequence, images having a relatively high number of high spatial frequency components and whose components have been reduced by at least one are extracted, and a correlation operation is performed thereon.

Correlation operational apparatus for multi-dimensional images

The method for detecting corresponding regions between a plurality of picture images comprises the steps of setting respective operation object regions for a plurality of picture images, calculating a variance of mutual concentration or density distributions in the operation object regions, and detecting the operation object regions which have been set in which the calculated variance value is at a minimum. The apparatus for detecting corresponding regions between picture images comprises a variance calculating member for calculating a variance of mutual concentration or density distributions in the operation object regions of a plurality of picture images, and a corresponding region detecting member for detecting a seat of regions where a variance value calculated by the variance calculating device is at a minimum.

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Yokohama, Japan

Toshio Honda