Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Contents Co., Ltd.

Yushi Ogino

Keisuke Fujimoto

Hiroshi Ueda

Hiroshi Kunimoto

Kunio Niwa

Takayuki Yamazaki

Hiroyasu Karimoto

Hideyuki Hagiwara

An earphone includes an audio transmitter, a housing, a sound passage pipe, a radiator, and a light receiver. The audio transmitter transmits sound. The housing has an internal space for containing the audio transmitter. The sound passage pipe guides sound produced at the audio transmitter into an external auditory canal. The radiator radiates light into the external auditory canal. The light receiver is disposed in the internal space of the housing. The light receiver converts the light into a signal, the light having been reflected off the external auditory canal and passed through an internal space of the sound passage pipe. The housing, the sound passage pipe, and the radiator are disposed in this order.

Earphone

When sound signals are input to a vibration driver through signal wires, the vibration driver converts the sound signals into mechanical vibrations. A second elastic member transmits the mechanical vibrations of the vibration driver to a user. On the other hand, air vibrations are generated by the vibration driver in a space formed by the vibration driver and a first elastic member. The air vibrations are converted into mechanical vibrations by the first elastic member, and are transmitted to the second elastic member. The second elastic member also transmits the mechanical vibrations transmitted from the first elastic member, to the user.

Bone conduction speaker and bone conduction headphone device

An interchangeable lens including a focus lens for collecting subject light, an imaging sensor operable to generate an image signal based on the subject light, a shutter device that is arranged between the interchangeable lens and the imaging sensor and includes a first curtain and a second curtain, a pulse counter operable to detect positions of the first curtain and the second curtain, and a body controller operable to start capturing of a signal from the imaging sensor based on the positions of the first curtain and the second curtain detected by the pulse counter are provided.

Imaging apparatus and camera body including a normally open type shutter having a full open state

The electronic viewfinderincludes a reflective type liquid crystal display, a finder optical system, and a transmission platethat transmits a part of the optical image signal collected by the finder optical systemtherethrough and reflects at least a part of a remaining optical image signal. The reflective type liquid crystal displayincludes a light sourcethat emits light, a liquid crystal plate, a reflecting plate, and a polarizing plate. The transmission plateis disposed to be inclined in a direction opposite to a inclined direction of the polarizing plate such that a transmission planethereof is not perpendicular to the optical axis of the finder optical system

Electronic viewfinder apparatus and imaging apparatus

An eyepiece lens system for an electronic viewfinder, usable to be disposed on an optical axis between a reflective LCD of the viewfinder and a last optical surface of the viewfinder, the eyepiece lens system comprising: a first lens having a positive refractive index; a second lens having a negative refractive index; and a third lens having a positive refractive index, wherein the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are disposed in this order from a side of the LCD to a side of the last optical surface, satisfying the conditions: 18 mm&#x3c;f&#x3c;20 mm, &#x2212;18 mm&#x3c;f&#x3c;&#x2212;16 mm, 18 mm&#x3c;f&#x3c;20 mm, 19 mm&#x3c;f&#x3c;21 mm, and 0&#x2266;HH'/f&#x3c;+0.13 where fis a focal length of the first lens, fis a focal length of the second lens, fis a focal length of the third lens, f is a combined focal length of the first to the third lenses, and HH&#x2032; is distance in an optical axis direction between a rear principal point H and a front principal point H&#x2032;.

Eyepiece lens system, finder optical system, and electronic viewfinder of imaging apparatus and imaging apparatus

An image pickup apparatus of the present invention includes a main bodyincorporating an image pickup element, an operation part that is placed on the main bodyand can be operated by a user, and a seventh surfaceprovided on the main body, on which, when the user takes a picture while holding the main body, the thumb of the hand holding the main bodycan be left in a stand-by state. The operation part includes rotation operation parts that are placed in the vicinity of the seventh surfaceand are rotatable, and the rotation operation parts are arranged so that at least a part of the same faces the seventh surface. With this, a movement amount of the fingers of the user is reduced, whereby the operability is improved.

Image pickup apparatus

Disclosed in the present invention is a creation production support method, for enabling the easy production of a large amount of creative material, within a short period of time, while reducing the labor effort required of a creator, and an apparatus and a storage medium therefor. Specifically, creative element data for a pair composed of a creative element and an element index are stored in a database (), and the element index is extracted from the database () and is placed in a reactor (). From this, a set of correlated element indexes is obtained, and creative elements corresponding to element indexes that constitute this set are coupled together and output. Then, a creation is automatically generated, and 5W1H information, indicating the contents of a corresponding creative element, and sensory information received from the creative element are written in the element index. When based on this information a correlation is obtained, a creation can be provided that can not be formed merely by the random linking of creative elements.

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Hyogo, Japan

Yushi Ogino