Abstract: An electronic camera for capturing images and for reviewing selected images, the camera comprising an arrangement for capturing an image of a real world scene as an image signal, a storage structure for storing captured images and from which stored images can be read, a screen, and a structure for displaying on the screen a graphical representation of a list of the stored images and a user selected location within the list. The camera further comprises a user interface which allows a user to select the location within the list, and a structure for displaying on the screen the image within the list corresponding to the selected location.

Abstract: An optical disk for high speed data recording and playback is disclosed. The optical disk includes a stiffening layer having two spaced-apart surfaces, the stiffening layer having a specific stiffness selected to be greater than 1*10.sup.8 inches and being positioned at the center of the thickness of the optical disk. The optical disk further includes first and second recording layers, each recording layer being formed over opposite surfaces of the stiffening layer, and first and second substrates being formed over the first and second recording layers, respectively.

Abstract: An electronic camera system includes a programmable transmission capability for selectively transmitting electronic image data to a plurality of remote base units. In one embodiment, a camera module is detachably coupled to a portable computer including a display screen and a data entry device. The electronic image data generated by the camera module is supplied to the portable computer for display on the display screen. The data entry device is used by an operator to select which of the plurality of base units are to receive the digital image data. The digital image data is supplied by the portable computer to a radio-frequency transmitter module for transmission to the selected base units. The radio-frequency transmitter module is formed either integral with the portable computer or, like the camera module, is detachably coupled to the portable computer.

Abstract: A digital camera, which captures images and transfers the captured images to a host computer, includes an image sensor exposed to image light for capturing the images and generating image signals; an A/D converter for converting the image signals into digitized image data; a digital interface for transferring the digitized image data to the host computer; means for controlling the image sensor in at least two different camera configurations, each configuration including configuration information defining a plurality of camera parameters; and means for communicating at least part of the configuration information along with the digitized image data to the computer via the digital interface.

Abstract: An optical recording actuator includes: a base and a lens holder having a lens. A pair of spaced-apart flexible, inextensible, coplanar connecting members are connected between the base and the lens holder. A force is applied to the lens holder in the plane of the connecting members to generate tension in the connecting members. A motor applies forces and moments to the lens holder so that the lens holder can move the lens in a desired manner. The resulting actuator has four controllable degrees of freedom of motion relative to the base: focus, tracking, pitch and roll.

Abstract: An optical actuator adapted to control the position of the actuator in at least two degrees of freedom of motion. The actuator includes a base, a moveable lens holder having a lens, a structure for connecting the lens holder to the base to support movement of the lens holder, and first and second pairs of surface-field motors, each pair of surface-field motors having first and second surface-field motors, each first and second surface-field motor including a surface-field coil and a surface-field magnetic assembly for applying forces to the lens holder to move the lens holder in at least two degrees of freedom of motion relative to the base, the surface-field coil being mounted on either the base or the lens holder, and the corresponding surface-field magnetic assembly being oppositely mounted on either the lens holder or the base to interact with the surface-field coil.

Abstract: A method for adjusting the timing for sampling a reflected write signal is disclosed. The method comprises determining a reference timing event, and sampling the reflected write signal at first and second sampling times to produce first and second sampled signals, the first sampling time occurring after a first variable time delay following the reference timing event and the second sampling time occurring after a first fixed time delay following the first sampling time. The method further comprises comparing the magnitudes of the first and second sampled signals, and adjusting the first variable time delay in response to the comparison of the magnitudes of the first and second sampled signals so that the magnitudes of the first and second sampled signals are substantially equal.

Abstract: An optical recording disc and a method of making such disc is disclosed. The disc has inner and outer peripheral edges, and includes a transparent substrate having a first portion corresponding to a recording area where data are recorded and a second portion corresponding to a non-recording area which extends from the recording area to a position adjacent to the outer peripheral edge of the disc. A continuous groove is formed in the substrate and extends over the first and second portions of the transparent substrate. The disc further includes a recording layer formed over the first and second portions of the transparent substrate and extending to a position so that the recording layer covers only a part of the groove in the second portion of the substrate whereby the outermost part of the groove is not covered by the recording layer.

Abstract: A method for transforming input color values to device control signals for a color printing device having an output response that is approximately invariant for ranges of the device control signals near the maximum or minimum allowable device control signals, wherein the input color values are transformed into the device control signals that are to be used to reproduce the input color values is disclosed.