Abstract: A mind-body correlation data evaluation apparatus includes a stimulation providing section which provides stimulation to motivate an action of a subject, a physiological response data collecting section which collects physiological response data of the subject, a subjective rating and action rating data collecting section which collects subjective rating data and action rating data of the subject, a control and calculating section which evaluates a mind-body state of the subject based on the stimulation, and at least one of the physiological response data, the subjective rating data, and the action rating data, and a data feed-back section which feeds back to the subject at least the mind-body state of the subject.

Abstract: The invention relates to a panoramic attachment optical system and a panoramic optical system for taking an image having a full 360°-direction angle of view or projecting an image at a full 360°-direction angle of view. These optical systems are reduced in size and flare light and improved in resolving power. A panoramic attachment optical system 10 attached to the entrance side of an image-formation lens 20 to form a full 360°-direction image on an image plane 30 comprises a transparent medium that is rotationally symmetric about a center axis 1 and includes at least two internal reflecting surfaces 12, 13 and at least two refracting surfaces 11, 14. A light beam enters the transparent medium via the refracting surface 11, and reflects at the internal reflecting surfaces 12 and 13 in this order to leave the transparent medium via the refracting surface 14, forming an image at a position of the image plane 30 off the center axis 1 via an image-formation lens 20.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical system adapted to take or project high-definition images with well corrected aberrations for the purpose of taking images from a 360° panoramic scene on a cylindrical, conical or other three-dimensional surface or project such a three-dimensional display surface onto a 360° field of view. Images from the 360° panoramic scene are formed on a rotationally symmetric, three-dimensional image surface 3. The optical system comprises at least one rotationally symmetric reflective surface 2, the position of an entrance pupil 4s with respect to a sagittal section is different from the position of an exit pupil 4m with respect to a meridional section.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical system with well corrected aberrations, which is adapted to take images from a full panoramic scene on a cylindrical, conical or other three-dimensional image surface or project such a three-dimensional display surface onto a full field of view in the distance. In an optical system adapted to form images from a 360° panoramic scene on a cylindrical or conical image surface 3, there is an annular refractive optical element 2 provided with the center axis 1 of rotation of the image surface 3 as the axis of rotational symmetry. There is further at least one reflective surface 4 provided with the center axis 1 of the rotation as the axis of rotational symmetry.

Abstract: A projection optical apparatus is provided that is fast and of satisfactory illumination efficiency albeit being of simple construction and compact size including at least three projection optical systems for magnifying and projecting an image appearing on a display device, and further including a concave mirror for projecting exit pupils of the projection optical systems onto a viewer side and a diffusing plate comprising a transmission hologram, which is located near to images projected through the projection optical systems for magnifying the images of the exit pupils of the projection optical system upon projected by the concave mirror. The image of the exit pupil of each projection optical system projected by the concave mirror and magnified through the diffusing plate comprising a transmission hologram is projected in a mutually, at least partially overlapping fashion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a biological information acquisition and presentation kit that enables a general able-bodied person or subject to measure the subject's own biological or emotional index in a ready way. The kit 1 is characterized by comprising a positioning means capable of being positioned on an axial focus position of a taking optical system that allows a subject to take an image of a subject's eyeball by herself or himself, an imaging means adapted to take an image of the subject's eyeball, a measurement means adapted to measure a physiological index from the image taken of the eyeball, a conversion means adapted to convert the physiological index detected by said measurement means into an emotional index, and a recording means adapted to record said physiological index or said emotional index, and further comprising a presentation means adapted to present comparative information with a recorded past emotional index.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical system adapted to project a cylindrical, spherical, conical or other three-dimensional display surface onto every direction in the distance or receive images from every direction at such a three-dimensional imaging surface. The optical system is adapted to project a three-dimensional object surface 3 onto a full circle in the distance, and comprises at least one rotationally symmetric reflective surface 2.

Abstract: The invention relates to a projection screen and a projection type display device, wherein projection light projected through a single projector is intensively diffused into at least two areas of view, each having a relatively narrow extent, so that the same image can be simultaneously viewed with both eyes or by at least two viewers. The projection screen 1 comprises a plurality of Fresnel concave mirrors 2L and 2R superposed on the same substrate in a mutually decentered fashion, and a diffusing plate is located on the side of the projection screen 1 on which projection light is incident or at which projection light is reflected.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotationally asymmetric optical system for taking an image having a full 360°-direction angle of view or projecting an image onto a full 360°-direction angle of view. With the rotationally asymmetric optical system, an image in a specific direction can be more enlarged or more reduced than an image in other direction, or an image can be picked up ro projected with an angle of view in a specific direction differing from an angle of view in other direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a panoramic attachment optical system and a panoramic optical system for taking an image having a full 360°-direction angle of view or projecting an image at a full 360°-direction angle of view. These optical systems are reduced in size and flare light and improved in resolving power. A panoramic attachment optical system 10 attached to the entrance side of an image-formation lens 20 to form a full 360° direction image on an image plane 30 comprises a transparent medium that is rotationally symmetric about a center axis 1 and includes at least one internal reflecting surface 12 and at least two refracting surfaces 11 and 13. A light beam incident on the entrance surface 11 in order of travel of light enters the transparent medium via the entrance surface 11, and is reflected at the internal reflecting surface 12 to leave the transparent medium via the exit surface 13, forming an image at a position of the image plane 30 off the center axis 1 via the image-formation lens 20.

Abstract: The invention relates to a panoramic attachment optical system and a panoramic optical system for taking an image having a full 360°-direction angle of view or projecting an image at a full 360°-direction angle of view. These optical systems are reduced in size and flare light and improved in resolving power. A panoramic attachment optical system 10 attached to the entrance side of an image-formation lens 20 to form a full 360°-direction image on an image plane 30 comprises a transparent medium that is rotationally symmetric about a center axis 1 and includes at least two internal reflecting surfaces 12, 13 and at least two refracting surfaces 11, 14. A light beam enters the transparent medium via the refracting surface 11, and reflects at the internal reflecting surfaces 12 and 13 in this order to leave the transparent medium via the refracting surface 14, forming an image at a position of the image plane 30 off the center axis 1 via an image-formation lens 20.

Abstract: The invention relates to a display system wherein a Fresnel lens that forms an eyepiece optical system is curved to correct for decentration aberration, whereby a display screen can be wholly observed even in a decentered state. In the display system, an object image is projected via a relay optical system 2 near the eyepiece optical system 1 so that the exit pupil E1 of the relay optical system 2 is projected via the eyepiece optical system 1 onto an observer's pupil position E0. The eyepiece optical system comprises an optical element having a Fresnel surface. The eyepiece optical system 1 and relay optical system 2 are located such that an axial chief ray emerging from the relay optical system 2 is obliquely incident on the eyepiece optical system 1. The axial chief ray is defined by a light ray emerging from the center of the object, and passing through the relay optical system 2 and then through the center of the pupil E1 of the relay optical system 2.

Abstract: The invention concerns a projection display for the projection of a viewing pupil having a limited area, which enables a viewer to take notice of the eye of the viewer per se being off the limited pupil area. The projection display comprises a display device, a projection optical system that has an aperture and is adapted to magnify and project an image appearing on the display device, and a display panel 15 including image-formation means 13 located near an image projected through the projection optical system for formation at a viewing pupil position of an aperture image of the projection optical system and diffuser means 14 that has scatter action and is adapted to magnify the aperture image of the projection optical system into viewing pupils 21L, 21R.

Abstract: The invention relates to a reflexive optical screen that can show bright images with efficiency, and a viewing system that incorporates the same, and provides a reflexive optical screen 10 comprising a plurality of zonal V-grooved reflecting surfaces substantially concentrically located within a given surface and having a retrorelection action. Each of the zonal V-grooved reflecting surfaces comprises mutually orthogonal two conical facets 2 and 3 in a section orthogonal to a ridgeline of a V groove, and the conical facets 2 and 3 of each of the zonal V-grooved reflecting surfaces are located such that a bisector 5 for angles that the two conical facets 2 and 3 make in a section of each of the zonal V-grooved reflecting surfaces is oriented in the direction of a light ray incident on a position thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a projection viewing system of simplified construction and high illumination efficiency, which enables at least two of images varying with viewing directions to be simultaneously displayed in a viewable fashion. The system comprises at least two display devices 11 and 12, at least two projection optical systems 21 and 22 for magnifying and projecting images appearing on the display devices 11 and 12, a common diffusing plate 4 located near to images projected through the projection optical systems 21 and 22 and a common eyepiece optical system 3 for projecting exit pupils of the projection optical systems 21 and 22 on the eyeballs E1 and E2 of viewers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a projection viewing system of simplified construction and high illumination efficiency, which enables at least two of images varying with viewing directions to be simultaneously displayed in a viewable fashion. The system comprises display devices 1L and 1R for displaying images, projection optical systems 2L and 2R for magnifying and projecting images 3L and 3R displayed on the display devices 1L and 1R, a diffusing plate 5 located in the vicinity of images projected through the projection optical systems 2L and 2R and an eyepiece optical system 4 for projecting exit pupils of the projection optical systems 2L and 2R on the positions of the eyeballs of a viewer. The diffusing plate 5 has an angle of diffusion of up to 20° at full width half maximum.

Abstract: The invention relates to a small-format display optical system using a reflection type image device as an image display device and capable of displaying bright, high-resolution images. The display optical system comprises a reflection type display device 3 for displaying an image, an illumination light source 5 for illuminating the reflection type display device 3, an illumination optical system for guiding light from the illumination light source 5 to the reflection type disply device 3, a relay optical system 21 for projection of an image appearing on the reflection type display device 3 and an eyepiece optical system 22 acting to converge a light beam from the relay optical system 21 toward the eyeball of a viewer. An image projected through the relay optical system 21 is formed near the eyepiece optical system 22.

Abstract: The invention relates to a small-format electronic imaging apparatus. The imaging apparatus comprises a two-dimensional image pickup device 1 capable of picking up images differing with the directions of incidence thereof, and reflecting surfaces 4 and 5 for reflecting an image of at least one object toward the two-dimensional image pickup device 1. The apparatus further comprises an image-formation optical system 30 for formation of an image of an object, wherein the optical system 30 is located on an entrance side of the two-dimensional image pickup device 1 and an object side of the imaging apparatus with respect to the reflecting surfaces 4 and 5, and a stop 2 for restricting a light beam. The reflecting surfaces 4 and 5 are positioned in such a way as not to cross an optical axis 3 defined by a light ray that passes through the center of the stop 2 and arrives at the center of the two-dimensional image pickup device 1.

Abstract: The invention relates to a reflexive optical screen that can show bright images with efficiency, and a viewing system that incorporates the same, and provides a reflexive optical screen 10 comprising a plurality of zonal V-grooved reflecting surfaces substantially concentrically located within a given surface and having a retrorelection action. Each of the zonal V-grooved reflecting surfaces comprises mutually orthogonal two conical facets 2 and 3 in a section orthogonal to a ridgeline of a V groove, and the conical facets 2 and 3 of each of the zonal V-grooved reflecting surfaces are located such that a bisector 5 for angles that the two conical facets 2 and 3 make in a section of each of the zonal V-grooved reflecting surfaces is oriented in the direction of a light ray incident on a position thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a projection screen and a projection type display device, wherein projection light projected through a single projector is intensively diffused into at least two areas of view, each having a relatively narrow extent, so that the same image can be simultaneously viewed with both eyes or by at least two viewers. The projection screen 1 comprises a plurality of Fresnel concave mirrors 2L and 2R superposed on the same substrate in a mutually decentered fashion, and a diffusing plate is located on the side of the projection screen 1 on which projection light is incident or at which projection light is reflected.