Abstract: For the purpose of suppressing an increase of temperature of a laser element, in an optical disc drive, even in case when recording/reproducing at such a low double speed that almost no expectation can be made upon the effect of the convection cooling due to circulating flow of an air, which is generated by rotation of a disc, and in particular, the structure for fixing both end portions of a main shaft, which is engaged with a transfer mechanism for moving an optical pickup into the disc radial direction, through the optical pickup, between two (2) pieces of shafts for supporting the optical pickup, onto connector portions to be engaged with the both end portions of the main shaft, upon a mechanical chassis, on which is mounted at least a disc rotation mechanism, etc., has structures for enlarging a contacting area defined between the both end portions of the main shaft and the connector portions or pressure plates, each building up the connector portion (for example, a comb-like configuration).

Abstract: To prevent deformation of a chassis due to an impact force in an optical disc apparatus, there is provided a tray for inserting/ejecting an optical disc into/from an apparatus body, with the chassis connected thereto through vibration proof materials in plural portions in a surface opposite a disc placing surface. The tray has projecting portions projecting in a chassis direction in positions facing the chassis in peripheral portions of the plural connecting portions. The projecting portion is located at a position higher than a tray plane with which the vibration proof material comes into contact, and lower than the surface of a chassis facing the tray. When the vibration proof material is compressed and deformed due to the impact force, the projecting portion comes into contact with the chassis facing surface, to reduce the amount of deformation of the vibration proof material and thereby prevent deformation of the chassis.

Abstract: In an optical disk apparatus, an ejection lock mechanism includes three (3) arm portions; i.e.

Abstract: In an optical disc apparatus, a metallic member forming an optical pickup, such as a bottom cover member of the optical pickup, has a protrusion in an integral form on the portion of the metallic member that is opposed to a plane of a flexible printed-wiring board, and the optical pickup is constructed so that when it comes into contact with an opposed face of the flexible printed-wiring board, the optical pickup brings a front end of the protrusion into contact with the opposed face.

Abstract: An optical disc apparatus has the following arrangements. Specifically, the optical disc apparatus includes a lock pin and a lock arm. The lock pin is disposed on a side of an inner surface of a case of the apparatus, being tapered in a protruding direction thereof. The lock arm is disposed on a side of a tray of the apparatus. The lock arm, urged by a resilient member, includes a hook portion to be engaged with an inclined surface of the lock pin. When the tray has moved to a predetermined position within the case, the lock arm is engaged with the lock pin, so that the tray is held in position at the predetermined position. When an impact force equal to, or more than, a predetermined value is applied to the optical disc apparatus, the hook portion of the lock arm is displaced in the protruding direction of the lock pin along the inclined surface of the lock pin, thereby disengaged from the lock pin. Engagement of the tray is thereby released.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display apparatus which can be miniaturized and is operated stably even at high resolution. The display apparatus according to the present invention includes a pixel array unit, a signal line driving circuit, and a scanning line driving circuit, each of which is formed by using a polysilicon TFT on a glass substrate, a control circuit, and a graphic controller IC. Since the graphic controller IC rearranges digital pixel data DATA in the inside, it is unnecessary to provide a gate array. Since the cycle of a clock signal CLK is twice as much as that of the digital pixel data DATA, the clock signal CLK having a frequency at which the polysilicon TFT normally operates can be supplied to the signal line driving circuit. Further, since the edge of the clock signal CLK is deviated from the changing position of the digital pixel data DATA and they are outputted, the signal line driving circuit can effectively capture the digital pixel data DATA.

Abstract: Setting so as to substantially minimize the aliasing distortion component at zero in spatial frequencies and at a Nyquist frequency is one of the examples of the present invention. When the setting is used, an image can be provided and displayed at a resolution higher than the number of physical pixels in the imaging apparatus and display apparatus.

Abstract: A front surface of the opposite electrode of a liquid crystal display panel is formed in a curved shape. The relation between the reflecting surface of the pixel electrode and the curved surface of the opposite substrate is defined so that a leaving direction of the light that is reflected by the first face of the opposite substrate is different from a leaving direction of light that is emitted from the first face of the opposite substrate after having been reflected by the pixel electrodes through the liquid crystal layer. Thus, undesired light on the front surface of the opposite substrate is separated from light that is displayed. Consequently, an image free of dazzling and deterioration of contrast ratio due to undesired reflected light can be obtained with a high contrast ratio. In a display apparatus containing the reflection type liquid crystal display, an incident surface to a dichroic prism is an inclined surface including a curved surface, not a surface that is perpendicular to the optical axis.

Abstract: Light diffusion layer 12, which diffuses reflected light by a reflecting surface, is arranged on a reflecting type liquid crystal display device having at least 2 substrates 24 and 29, liquid crystal layer 30 inserted between these substrates, and reflecting surface 16a which reflects light via this liquid crystal layer. This light diffusion layer forms a fine particle dispersion layer or a diffraction grating layer combined of 2 types of refractive index medium with differing refractive indices, and when the refractive index of first refractive index medium 13 is nA(400) at light wave length 400 nm, and nA(700) at light wave length 700 nm, and the refractive index of second refractive index medium 14 is nB (400) at light wave length 400 nm, and nB(700) at light wave length 700 nm, then, (nA(400)/nA(700))×0.9≦(nB(400)/nB(700))≦(nA(400)/nA(700))×1.1.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a display device which can realize a magnified image. A display device comprises a display panel having a predetermined effective display region PS, a display screen, and a magnifying optical system including a first inverting optical system constituted by a first lens array in which a plurality of first lenses corresponding to the display panel are arrayed and a second inverting optical system constituted by a second lens array in which a plurality of second lenses corresponding to the first lenses are arrayed. The magnifying optical system constitutes a plurality of channels for forming on the display screen a magnified erect image for a display image on the display panel through the corresponding first and second lenses. The magnifying optical system is constructed so as to form on the display screen an image of an image point on the display panel through at least three of the channels.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display apparatus which can be miniaturized and is operated stably even at high resolution.

Abstract: A front surface of the opposite electrode of a liquid crystal display panel is formed in a curved shape. The relation between the reflecting surface of the pixel electrode and the curved surface of the opposite substrate is defined so that a leaving direction of the light that is reflected by the first face of the opposite substrate is different from a leaving direction of light that is emitted from the first face of the opposite substrate after having been reflected by the pixel electrodes through the liquid crystal layer. Thus, undesired light on the front surface of the opposite substrate is separated from light that is displayed. Consequently, an image free of dazzling and deterioration of contrast ratio due to undesired reflected light can be obtained with a high contrast ratio. In a display apparatus containing the reflection type liquid crystal display, an incident surface to a dichroic prism is an inclined surface including a curved surface, not a surface that is perpendicular to the optical axis.

Abstract: A display device comprises a display panel, a scanning circuit section for supplying a scanning signal to scanning lines of the display panel, and a scanning control circuit section for supplying an n-bit (n: 2 or more positive integer) input numeral signal and an inverted replica of the input numeral signal to the scanning circuit section. In the display device, a scanning circuit section comprises an input connection line group having sets of input connection lines for receiving bits of the input numeral signal and bits of the inverted replica of the input numeral signal, a plurality of logic circuit sections, less in number than the scanning lines, for responding to combinations of the input numeral signal and its inverted replica, and an output distributing unit for assigning an output from one logic circuit section to at least two scanning lines.

Abstract: A display device comprises a display panel, a scanning circuit section for supplying a scanning signal to scanning lines of the display panel, and a scanning control circuit section for supplying an n-bit (n: 2 or more positive integer) input numeral signal and an inverted replica of the input numeral signal to the scanning circuit section. In the display device, a scanning circuit section comprises an input connection line group having sets of input connection lines for receiving bits of the input numeral signal and bits of the inverted replica of the input numeral signal, a plurality of logic circuit sections, less in number than the scanning lines, for responding to combinations of the input numeral signal and its inverted replica, and an output distributing unit for assigning an output from one logic circuit section to at least two scanning lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of low power consumption is disclosed, which is suitable for use with a portable data processing apparatus, in particular.

Abstract: A pixel electrode is disposed with an inclination angle to a base member on a front side (namely, an opposite substrate side) of a liquid crystal display panel. The relation between the reflecting surface of the pixel electrode and the main surface of the base member on the front side of the liquid crystal display panel is defined so that the difference between the reflecting angle of light that is entered as incident light and reflected on the surface of the base member and the leaving angle of light emitted as display light via the liquid crystal display panel exceeds the collection angle of the display apparatus. Thus, undesired light on the main surface of the base member of the display surface is separated from light that is displayed. Consequently, an image free of dazzling and deterioration of contrast ratio due to undesired reflected light can be obtained with a high contrast ratio.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light source, a modulating device for modulating light emitted from the light source, a modulating device driving unit for driving the modulating device, a first aperture stop unit arranged between the light source and the modulating device to limit a bundle of rays to be incident on the modulating device from the light source, the first aperture stop unit having an aperture with a variable size, a display screen onto which exit light from the modulating device is projected, a projection optical system for projecting the exit light from the modulating device onto the display screen, a second aperture stop unit arranged between the modulating device and the projection optical system to limit a bundle of rays to be incident on the projection optical system from the modulating device, the second aperture stop unit having an aperture with a variable size, a photosensor for detecting the display luminance on the display screen, and an aperture control unit for controlling the size of

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light source, a modulating device for modulating light emitted from the light source, a modulating device driving unit for driving the modulating device, a first aperture stop unit arranged between the light source and the modulating device to limit a bundle of rays to be incident on the modulating device from the light source, the first aperture stop unit having an aperture with a variable size, a display screen onto which exit light from the modulating device is projected, a projection optical system for projecting the exit light from the modulating device onto the display screen, a second aperture stop unit arranged between the modulating device and the projection optical system to limit a bundle of rays to be incident on the projection optical system from the modulating device, the second aperture stop unit having an aperture with a variable size, a photosensor for detecting the display luminance on the display screen, and an aperture control unit for controlling the size of

Abstract: According to this invention, there is provided a charged particle detection device including a semiconductor substrate, an insulating film formed on the semiconductor substrate, an electrode formed on the insulating film, a member for forming a potential well, which is constituted by a depletion layer, near a surface of the semiconductor substrate under the electrode, a member for sweeping, into the semiconductor substrate, charges which are generated in the semiconductor substrate by charged particles incident from the electrode and are stored in the potential well, and a member for detecting signal charges generated by the charged particles swept into the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A solid state image sensor has a photosensing region formed on a substrate. The photosensing region has a plurality of photocells for receiving an incident image. The photosensing region is capable of changing image sampling modes by relatively shifting image sampling points for the incident image. In the photosensing region, a plurality of first transfer elements are formed and the first transfer elements receive the signal charges from adjoining photocells and transfer them out. Further, a temporary storage region is formed on the substrate having a plurality of second transfer elements therein for each of the first transfer elements. Each of the second transfer elements has a capacity to accommodate all of the signal charges of a corresponding first transfer elements which are read out from the photocells at the same time. A plurality of gate elements are respectively formed between each of the first transfer elements and their corresponding plurality of second transfer elements.