Abstract: A servo signal recording apparatus and servo-signal recording method for recording a servo signal on a magnetic tape that includes a magnetic layer having a data area capable of storing data and a servo area capable of storing a servo signal, the apparatus including a transportation unit for transporting the magnetic tape; a direct current (DC) erasing unit on a downstream side in a magnetic tape transportation direction that performs DC erasure to a surface layer portion of the magnetic layer by magnetization in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape; and a servo signal recording unit on a downstream side of the DC erasing unit in the magnetic tape transportation direction, that rubs against the magnetic layer of the magnetic tape, and records a servo signal in the servo area by magnetization in a direction opposite to a direction of the magnetization of the DC erasing unit.

Abstract: A light irradiation device includes: a focus servo control unit including a light source, a spatial light modulating unit, and a light irradiating unit, for focus servo control so that the ideal focal position of light via an objective lens is such that distance between an ideal focal position and a hologram recording medium surface is smaller than distance from the surface to the lower layer side face of the recording layer, and the focal position of light via the objective lens is constant at the ideal focal position; an objective-lens/relay-lens distance adjusting unit to adjust distance between the objective lens and a relay lens close to the objective lens; a light reception unit to receive marker light; and a constant distance control unit to control the objective-lens/relay-lens distance adjusting unit based on error between the ideal position of the marker light, and the actual position of the marker light.

Abstract: An apparatus of generating fluorinated gas compounds by means of reacting liquid stock with gaseous material is characterized by providing a circulating system comprised of a reaction chamber where a liquid mixture containing the liquid stock reacts with the gaseous material, a fluid conduit through which the liquid mixture alone flows, an upper fluid channel through which the reacted liquid mixture moves from the top of the reaction chamber to the top of the fluid conduit, and a lower fluid channel through which the liquid mixture moves from the bottom of the fluid conduit to the bottom of the reaction chamber, and sparging into the bottom of the reaction chamber (A) the virgin gaseous material and (B) at least one selected from the fluorinated gas compounds resulted from the reaction in the reaction chamber, including the first fluorinated gas product generated in the first cycle of the reaction and the second or later gas product resulted from further fluorinating the first or later gas product in the succ

Abstract: A travel mode setting device for a hybrid car capable of ensuring the security against car theft and convenience when the car is lent to the third party. The hybrid car has travel drive sources and selectively uses one of them and can travel in one of travel modes. Authenticating means separately authenticate the car user and creates authentication results. Limiting means limits the travel modes to the usable travel modes according to the results of the authentication by the authenticating means.

Abstract: A reproducing device including a light source that emits light for reproducing recorded information to a hologram recording medium subjected to recording of information by interference fringes of signal light and reference light, a light irradiating unit that generates the reference light for obtaining a reproduced image according to the recorded information and DC light having uniform intensity and phase, and irradiates the hologram recording medium with both the reference light and the DC light and with only the DC light, a light receiving unit that performs light-reception for the DC light and the reproduced image, and performs light-reception for the DC light, and a difference calculating unit that calculates a difference between an image signal obtained based on a light-reception result of the reproduced image and the DC light, and an image signal obtained based on a light-reception result of the DC light.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus (1), for performing image processing on image data which is obtained by performing imaging of a subject and in which the degree of motion blurring of an image represented by the image data changes in accordance with an imaging condition at the time of performing imaging of the subject, includes a motion information correcting unit (12) for correcting motion information representing motion concerning the image on the basis of imaging information representing the imaging condition, and a motion blurring adding unit (13) for adding motion blurring to the image by using the motion information corrected by the motion information correcting means to perform image processing on the image data.

Abstract: There is provided an extremely practical fiber-reinforced resin pipe that is lightweight and easy to handle; does not require a weld joint to provide an introduction/outlet part, closure lid, or other component; has excellent corrosion resistance; and is substantially less expensive than a super stainless steel pipe. In a fiber-reinforced resin pipe for introducing and discharging a liquid, a pipe (1) is provided with a plurality of introduction/discharge parts (2) for introducing or discharging liquid that are arranged at intervals in the axial direction from a peripheral surface of the pipe.

Abstract: To provide a method for forming electrodes and/or black stripes for a plasma display substrate, wherein display electrodes, bus electrodes and optionally black stripes for a plasma display panel are formed of the same material by the same dry step, whereby a clear image having reflection prevented, can be displayed on a PDP display device with a low load on the environment, at low costs, with low resistance, without erosion by a dielectric. A method for forming electrodes and/or black stripes for a plasma display substrate, which comprises applying a laser beam to a mask layer formed on a transparent substrate to form openings at areas corresponding to the respective patterns of display electrodes, bus electrodes and optionally black stripes, then continuously forming an antireflection layer to provide an antireflection effect over the entire surface and an electrode layer, and applying again a laser beam to peel off the mask layer and at the same time to remove an unnecessary thin film layer.

Abstract: A reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, recording and reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing method, recording apparatus, and recording method are provided.

Abstract: A recording/reproduction method of performing recording/reproduction of a hologram by illuminating a hologram recording medium, which has a recording layer in which information is recorded by interference fringes between signal light and reference light, with the signal light and/or the reference light as recording/reproduction light through an objective lens includes the step of: setting a focal position of the recording/reproduction light such that a distance from a surface of the hologram recording medium to the focal position of the recording/reproduction light is larger than a distance from the surface to a lower-layer-side surface of the recording layer and illuminating the hologram recording medium including an angle-selective reflective layer, which is formed below the recording layer and has a selective light reflection/transmission characteristic depending on a light incidence angle, with the recording/reproduction light the focal position of which has been set.

Abstract: There is provided a light illuminating apparatus including: a light source allowing light to illuminate a hologram-recording medium having a recording layer, where information is recorded by an interference fringe of a signal light and a reference light, and a cover layer on an upper-layer side thereof; a spatial light-modulator performing spatial light-modulation on the light from the light source to generate the signal light and/or the reference light; and a light illuminating unit allowing the light, which is subject to the spatial light-modulation by the spatial light-modulator, as a recording/reproduced light to illuminate the hologram-recording medium through an objective lens, wherein a focus position of the recording/reproduced light is set so that a distance from a surface of the hologram-recording medium to the focus position of the recording/reproduced light is smaller than a distance from the surface to a lower-layer side surface of the recording layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method enabling to correct for camera shake given in image capturing, a recording medium, and a program. Discrete data pieces indicating shifts are obtained. The discrete data pieces are interpolated to obtain data indicating a shift every line. By the interpolation, a correction is calculated every line on the basis of the corresponding shift. On the basis of the corrections, pixel data read positions are determined. Pixel data is read based on the determined read positions. When a pixel to be read overlaps two pixels, pixel data of the pixel to be read is produced (interpolated) from pixel data pieces. In this manner, the effects of camera shake are corrected. The present invention is applicable to video cameras.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a curable polycyclic compound represented by the following formula (1): {wherein A is a di- to hexa-valent group derived from a polycyclic hydrocarbon compound; R1 is an alkyl group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a perfluoroalkyl group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a fluorine atom; n is an integer of 0 to 2; m is an integer of 2 to 4; and Y is a group represented by the following formula (2) or (3): (wherein R2, R3, R5 and R6 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom or an alkyl group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R4 is a methyl group or an ethyl group; and p and q are each independently an integer of 0 to 4)}.

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus includes: a light source to irradiate light onto a hologram recording medium onto which information is recorded by interference fringes of signal light and reference light; a spatial light modulation portion to generate the reference light by performing a spatial light modulation on the light from the light source; and an optical system to irradiate the reference light onto the hologram recording medium via a relay lens system and an objective lens and guide reproduction light obtained from the hologram recording medium in accordance with the irradiation of the reference light to an image pickup device via the objective lens and the relay lens system, the optical system being provided with, in an optical path between the relay lens system and the image pickup device, an angle permselective device that selectively transmits light with an incidence angle of a predetermined angle or less.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method enabling to correct for camera shake given in image capturing, a recording medium, and a program. Discrete data pieces indicating shifts are obtained. The discrete data pieces are interpolated to obtain data indicating a shift every line. By the interpolation, a correction is calculated every line on the basis of the corresponding shift. On the basis of the corrections, pixel data read positions are determined. Pixel data is read based on the determined read positions. When a pixel to be read overlaps two pixels, pixel data of the pixel to be read is produced (interpolated) from pixel data pieces. In this manner, the effects of camera shake are corrected. The present invention is applicable to video cameras.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polypeptide which has: (i) an amino acid sequence wherein one or more amino acid residues are substituted in the region at positions 20 to 38 from the N terminus of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; or (ii) an amino acid sequence wherein one or more amino acid residues are substituted in the region at positions 20 to 38 from the N terminus of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 and one or more amino acid residues are deleted, substituted or added in the region at positions 1 to 19 or 39 to 294; and which has N-acetylglutamate kinase activity.

Abstract: A recording and reproducing apparatus includes a spatial-light-intensity modulating unit, a spatial-light-phase modulating unit, an optical system that transmits light and leads the light to a hologram recording medium, a converting unit that converts an input data sequence; an amplitude and phase controlling unit that controls, during recording, the spatial-light-intensity modulating unit and the spatial-light-phase modulating unit to generate a signal light and a reference light, and controls, during reproduction, light intensity of each of pixels in a reference light area and a signal light area and controls a phase of each of the pixels, an image-signal acquiring unit that receives the reproduced image and the DC light and obtains two kinds of image signals, a difference calculating unit that calculates a difference between the two kinds of image signals, and a decoding unit that decodes data formed by a combination of the two kinds of values.

Abstract: A coding apparatus for embedding second data into first data without deteriorating the first data includes a memory for storing at least partial data of the first data. An embedding coder embeds the second data into the first data by rearranging, according to the second data, at least partial data of the first data stored in the memory. A decoding apparatus for decoding coded data in to the original first data and the original second data without deteriorating the quality of the data includes a relation calculating unit for calculating a relation between first partial data and second partial data of the coded data. A decoder decodes the coded data into the original first data by moving the first partial data and the second partial data of the coded data based on the relation calculated by the relation calculating unit, and decodes the second data that is embedded in the coded data according to the movement.

Abstract: A magnesium compound represented by the formula (I): Mg(OC2H5)2?n(OR1)n??(I) where R1 is CmH2m+1 (where m is an integer of from 3 to 10), and n is a numerical value satisfying 0<n<0.35; a solid catalyst component for olefin polymer using the magnesium compound; a catalyst for olefin polymer; and methods of producing olefin copolymers such as a propylene-based random copolymer and propylene-based block copolymer by using the catalyst for olefin polymer.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus which forms a whole image including a first part image and a second part image on a front side of an image forming target unit formed by overlapping portions of the first and second part images is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes: the image forming target unit; a first projector; a second projector; a first planoconvex lens; and a second planoconvex lens.