Abstract: An image recording medium in which a refractive index modulation is recorded in a material in a layer such that, when the hologram recording medium is illuminated from a predetermined angle and a viewpoint is moved horizontally with respect to a normal line, a hologram image having continuous parallax in at least the horizontal direction is reproduced and that, when the viewpoint is moved in a direction with respect to the normal line different from the horizontal direction, another image that is different from and thus is not continuous with the hologram image is reproduced.

Abstract: A plurality of source data frames is input into a processor. The plurality of source data frames is sectioned into a plurality of sections which are mapped to form a plurality of pre-distort images. The plurality of pre-distort images is compensated for variations in the degree of saturation (Diffraction Efficiency) to reduce ghosting and compressed to form a plurality of holographic elements, which are recorded onto a holographic recording medium to form a holographic stereogram.

Abstract: A barrier-film forming apparatus that forms a barrier film on an inner face of a container (12) having a concave or convex portion (12a) as a processing target, including: a dielectric member (50) having a cavity sized to enclose the container (12), an external electrode (13) covering an outer circumference of the dielectric member (50), an exhaust unit installed on an end face of the external electrode (13) on a side where a mouth (11) of the container (12) is located, with an insulating member (26) interposed therebetween, and depressurizing inside of the container (12) through an exhaust pipe (14), an internal electrode (17) inserted from a side of the exhaust pipe (14) and also serving as a gas blowout unit that blows out medium gas (19) for generating a barrier film into the container (12), and an electric-field applying unit that applies an electric field for generating exhaust between the external electrode (13) and a ground electrode.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus is provided. The lighting apparatus includes a power supply housing section, a circuit board housing section, a light source housing section, a cutout portion, and a light source. An image recorded on a record medium is displayed in the state that an end portion of the power supply housing section and an end portion of the record medium secured to the cutout portion are placed on a surface where the lighting apparatus is placed.

Abstract: An authenticity proof label is provided and includes an adhesive layer, a hologram layer provided on the adhesive layer, a protective layer provided on the hologram layer, and a cut provided from a side of the protective layer in such a manner as to at least reach the hologram layer, the cut dividing a surface area of the protective layer into at least two segments.

Abstract: A method capable of converting motion image data, which is captured in an ordinary way without intending to produce parallax image printed matter, to data that can be printed as parallax image printed matter is provided. The method includes the steps of specifying at least one frame as a reference frame from a plurality of frames constituting the motion image data, and setting a point-of-regard on an object in the reference frame, calculating an amount of movement of the point-of-regard using a relation between the point-of-regard in the reference frame and a point corresponding thereto in another frame, obtaining a motion compensation amount for each frame based on this amount of movement thereof, and executing a motion compensation processing for the motion image data based on the motion compensation amount, thereby converting the motion image data to parallax image data.

Abstract: An image recording method of recording a holographic stereogram is disclosed. An optical deflecting device is disposed in proximity to a hologram record medium when it is exposed with a stripe-shaped elemental hologram. Either object beam or reference beam is deflected in a long side direction thereof through the optical deflecting device to expose the hologram record medium. The hologram record medium is multiply exposed at least two times with different deflection angles of the optical deflecting device to cause the elemental hologram to have a plurality of parallaxes in a long side direction of the elemental hologram.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for manufacturing a gas barrier plastic container which simultaneously satisfies the condition that the same vacuum chamber can be used even when the container shapes are different, the condition that a high-frequency power source is unnecessary, and the condition that film formation can be carried out for a plurality of containers inside one vacuum chamber in order to make the apparatus low cost. In an apparatus for forming a film on the inner surface of a container, a thermal catalyst is supported on a source gas supply pipe, and the source gas supply pipe is inserted into the port of the container, followed by film formation. In an apparatus for forming a film on the outer surface of a container, a thermal catalyst is arranged on the periphery of the plastic, and a source gas is blown out through the source gas supply pipe while bringing the source gas into contact with the thermal catalyst for film formation.

Abstract: In a merchandise order receiving system, an order controlling server receives an order of a merchandise from a user terminal; a charging and settlement server performs the charging and the settlement of the merchandise; an order receiving server receives an order of the delivery of a merchandise; a print-out apparatus prints image data from an image storing server to generate printed material such a as hologram or holographic stereogram; and a merchandise assembling apparatus generates an assembled merchandise by incorporating the printed matter in the merchandise and supplies the assembled merchandise to a shipping terminal.

Abstract: A certification system includes a photographing unit 10 which generates looks image data LI whose object is an individual person P, a holographic stereogram manufacturing unit 20 which makes a holographic stereogram HL in accordance with the looks image data LI, a two dimensional photo printing unit 30 which prints the looks image data LI as a two dimensional photograph PIC, an image server 40 which stores the looks image data LI, an information recoding unit 50 which records connection information in a recording member RM, and a manufacturing unit 60 which integrates the recording member RM, the two dimensional photograph PIC, and the holographic stereogram HL to make a certification card CC.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus is provided. The lighting apparatus includes a power supply housing section, a circuit board housing section, a light source housing section, a cutout portion, and a light source. An image recorded on a record medium is displayed in the state that an end portion of the power supply housing section and an end portion of the record medium secured to the cutout portion are placed on a surface where the lighting apparatus is placed.

Abstract: The imaging device reads out a first time spatial parameter required for image capturing of an object from various time spatial parameters stored in the storage server and/or recorded on the recording medium, captures the images of the object and produces the captured image data on the basis of this time spatial parameter. The imaging device causes the captured image data and the time spatial parameter corresponding thereto to be stored in the storage server, and/or to be recorded on the recording medium. These captured image data and the time spatial parameter corresponding thereto are supplied to the image data processing unit in the holographic stereogram producing device, in which this supplied time spatial parameter is used as a second time spatial parameter which is required at the time of producing a holographic stereogram.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a container in which it is difficult for liquid to drip at a mouth portion having a good touch sensation by forming a structure in which a welded portion that was laser welded in a sealed container does not form a flange, and to carry out the achievement of making polymer material unnecessary and making excessive material in the seaming portion unnecessary. Further, it is also an object to construct the lid and barrel of the vessel by using the same material, thereby facilitating the recycling of material.

Abstract: A printed material production apparatus comprises: a picture image input section for inputting a picture image string; a picture image conversion section for converting an inputted picture image string inputted into a panoramic picture image; a picture image processing section for generating a viewing point converted picture image string including a plurality of viewing point converted picture images in accordance with the panoramic picture image generated; and a printing section for producing printed material in accordance with the viewing point converted picture image string generated.

Abstract: In a holographic stereogram creating device for creating a holographic stereogram by sequentially recording interference fringes between reference light and object light, which is obtained by sequentially spatial-modulating a plurality of images picked up from different observing points, as strip or dot elemental holograms, on one hologram recording material of an object light projection optical system for irradiating the hologram recording material with the spatially modulated object light, the object light projection optical system includes a slit arranged at a conjugate position of the hologram recording material for eliminating unnecessary light and a lens attached to the slit.

Abstract: A recording medium (1) for hologram comprises a hologram recording layer (3) comprised of photo-polymer layer is formed on a base (2) comprised of colorless and transparent resin film, etc. and a protective layer (4) comprised of colorless and transparent resin film, etc. formed on the hologram recording layer (3). As such base (2) and protective layer (4), material having less double refraction is used. Optical axis of double refraction when such components are configured to be strip-shaped is allowed to be a direction of the longer side or a direction of the shorter side.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a gas barrier film coated plastic container with high gas-barrier properties by solving a problem in a conventional method wherein the formation of a gas barrier film is obstructed by water molecules adsorbed in the plastic container and the container with reduced gas-barrier properties is manufactured. The method is characterized by comprising the steps of decreasing a pressure inside the plastic container or decreasing a pressure to the entire part of the plastic container, flowing dry gas as leak gas when vacuum is released to fill the inside of the container with the dry gas for drying the plastic container, replacing the gas inside the plastic container with a material gas or a material gas-containing gas, and plasmatizing the material gas to form the gas barrier film on the inner surface of the plastic container by a CVD method.

Abstract: A plurality of source data frames is input into a processor. The plurality of source data frames is sectioned into a plurality of sections which are mapped to form a plurality of pre-distort images. The plurality of pre-distort images is compensated for variations in the degree of saturation (Diffraction Efficiency) to reduce ghosting and compressed to form a plurality of holographic elements, which are recorded onto a holographic recording medium to form a holographic stereogram.

Abstract: A parallax image pickup apparatus for forming a parallax image train by photographing an object from a plurality of directions includes an image pickup unit in which an image pickup device and an image forming optical system are integrated in order to photograph the parallax images of the object; a rotating unit on which the image pickup unit is mounted and which rotates the image pickup unit in a parallax direction; an image pickup unit moving unit for rectilinearly moving the image pickup unit and the rotating unit synchronously with the rotation of the rotating unit; a control unit for controlling so that a virtual image pickup center portion is always located at the center of a photographed image; and a focal distance control unit for continuously changing a focal distance of the image pickup unit.

Abstract: A print producing apparatus of a print producing system is provided with a recording medium conveying section which intermittently conveys a strip-like hologram recording medium, a cutting out section which cuts out, as a piece of hologram recording medium, a predetermined region of the recording medium that includes at least a piece of a holographic stereogram image or a hologram from a hologram recording medium, a film retaining section and a film supplying section which one by one provides plural sheets of protecting film PF which are retained, a film opening and closing section which opens and folds a single sheet of the PF which has been folded in two along a folding line of the PF, a mounting retaining and supplying section which one by one provides plural sheets of mountings, and a laminating section which laminates the recording medium piece for hologram and the mounting with the PF.