Abstract: In a three-dimensional shape detecting system comprising a three-dimensional shape detecting device and an external calculating device, the three-dimensional shape detecting device includes: projection means which projects pattern light onto a subject; image data obtaining means which captures a pattern light projection image of the subject and thereby obtains image data of the pattern light projection image while capturing a pattern light non-projection image of the subject and thereby obtaining image data of the pattern light non-projection image; pattern light position extraction means which extracts a position of the pattern light projected on the subject based on the obtained image data; and three-dimensional shape calculation means which figures out three-dimensional shape data of the subject based on the position of the pattern light extracted by the pattern light position extraction means.

Abstract: There is provided a three-dimensional shape detecting device comprising: pattern beam projection means which projects a plurality of pattern beams including two pattern beams having different angular widths; image capturing means which captures an image of a subject onto which the pattern beams are projected, from a position a prescribed distance apart from the pattern beam projection means; and three-dimensional shape calculation means which calculates positions of the pattern beams projected on the subject based on the image captured by the image capturing means and thereby determines a three-dimensional shape of the subject.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shape and color detecting apparatus that detects a three-dimensional shape of an object and a color thereof is provided with an illuminating system that emits light to illuminate the object, and a light receiving device that receives a reflected component of the light from the object. In this structure, the illuminating system is configured to emit the light from a surface having a predetermined area to the object.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shape and color detecting apparatus that detects a three-dimensional shape of an object and a color thereof is provided with an illuminating system that emits light to illuminate the object, and a light receiving device that receives a reflected component of the light from the object. In this structure, the illuminating system is configured to emit the light from a surface having a predetermined area to the object.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shape and color detecting apparatus that detects a three-dimensional shape of an object and a color thereof is provided with an illuminating system that emits light to illuminate the object, and a light receiving device that receives a reflected component of the light from the object. In this structure, the illuminating system is configured to emit the light from a surface having a predetermined area to the object.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shape and color detecting apparatus that detects a three-dimensional shape of an object and a color thereof is provided with an illuminating system that emits light to illuminate the object, and a light receiving device that receives a reflected component of the light from the object. In this structure, the illuminating system is configured to emit the light from a surface having a predetermined area to the object.

Abstract: A display device has a white point light source, a condenser lens, a liquid crystal display, and an imaging lens. The white point light source has a substantial conjugate relationship with a user's pupil that is located on the front surface of the user's eyeball. The liquid crystal display has a substantial conjugate relationship with the user's retina. The scattering plate is further provided to broaden the bundle width of the light at a location in the vicinity of the user's pupil.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, an exposure head has blue light emitting elements, a base on which the blue light emitting elements are provided, bonding pads formed on the base, and an aluminum-made reflecting layer formed on each bonding pad. Each aluminum-made reflecting layer has a reflectivity of 90% or higher to blue light from the light emitting element with respect to the regular reflection component. Part of blue light generated by one of the light emitting elements may travel to an adhered surface of the light emitting element, but it is reflected by the aluminum-made reflecting layer without being absorbed by the adjacent bonding pad, so that that part of blue light is re-directed toward a microcapsule recording sheet.

Abstract: An image forming machine includes an exposure unit and a pressure development unit for forming an image on a microcapsule coated sheet. The exposure unit includes a plurality of light emitting elements, a substrate having reflective recesses formed in the surface thereof, the plurality of light emitting elements being disposed in the recesses, and a mask having openings formed opposite the plurality of light emitting elements. The reflective recess prevents light from the light emitting element from exiting through the pinhole other than the pinhole opposed to that light emitting element, thus improving the efficiency of utilization of exposure light. A partition may be provided between the light emitting elements.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming an image by exposing and developing the photosensitive record medium, the photosensitive record medium having a first microcapsule whose strength is changed by being emitted a blue light, a second microcapsule whose strength is changed by being emitted a green light, and a third microcapsule whose strength is changed by being emitted a red light, the image forming apparatus comprising: an exposing device on which a first light emitting device for emitting the blue light, a second light emitting device for emitting the green light and a third light emitting device for emitting the red light are mounted, for exposing the photosensitive record medium by the blue light, the green light and the red light; a developing device for developing the exposed photosensitive record medium by applying a pressure to the exposed photosensitive record medium; and a transporting unit for transporting the photosensitive record medium from an exposing position where the exposing device is mo

Abstract: A photo and pressure sensitive printer permitting the feeding and discharging of a photosensitive recording medium at the front of the printer housing, having a compact design and slim built, which can easily be integrated into other equipment, such as a personal computer, etc., at low cost. A self-coloring microcapsule sheet supporting microcapsules is ejected from a cartridge at the front of the printer housing in the Y direction, and being preheated by a film heater to increase the sensitivity, a latent image is formed by exposure on the front face thereof while the exposure-scan is performed by a movement in the main scanning direction of a LED-type exposure head.

Abstract: Maintenance performance is promoted and a vivid printed image is provided in an electrophotographic device capable of conducting color printing. Cartridges corresponding to different printing colors, each of which includes a photosensitive body, are stacked in a vertical direction. A recording sheet is fed along a sheet feeding path and brought into contact with the photosensitive bodies corresponding to the respective colors, and toner images of the respective printing colors are transferred on the recording sheet. A transfer belt for feeding the recording sheet is arranged in a front cover, and the transfer belt is exposed when the front cover is opened. Therefore, correcting a mis-feeding of the recording sheet is facilitated. Also, the respective cartridges are spaced apart such that optical paths are provided between the cartridges so that optical beams corresponding to the respective printing colors may be directly irradiated onto the corresponding photosensitive bodies.

Abstract: The housing 2 is integrally formed with a cylindrical support portion 6. A cylindrical bore 30a is formed through the support portion 6. An inner diameter of the bore 30a is made substantially equal to an outer diameter of the semiconductor laser 4. The semiconductor laser 4 is therefore supported in the bore 30a. A lens barrel 7 holds therein a collimator lens 5. The outer diameter of the lens barrel 7 is also substantially equal to the inner diameter of the bore 30a. The lens barrel 7 is also supported in the bore 30a.

Abstract: An optical scanning system including a light source which emits a light beam; a light deflector having at least one reflecting surface providing a deflecting surface for deflecting the light beam emitted by the light source, in a deflection plane defined by the light beam incident to the light deflector and the light beam deflected by the light deflector; and a light-converging device which receives the light beam deflected by the light deflector and forms an optical image on an object to be scanned, an optical axis of the light-converging device being spaced from, and extending parallel to, the deflection plane.

Abstract: An optical scanning apparatus of the present invention is for optically scanning a medium. In the optical scanning apparatus, a light source receives image information and emits light beam modulated in accordance with the image information. A single optically imaging system is positioned in a single location for receiving the light beam from the light source and for focusing the light beam to be focused on the medium. A reflective mirror formed with a single reflective surface is provided for reflecting the light beam from the optically imaging system to direct the light beam to the medium. The reflective mirror is rotated by a motor at a fixed speed to allow the reflective surface to scan the light beam on the medium in a scanning sweep. Surfaces other than the reflective surface of the reflective mirror is prevented from directing the light beam to be focused on the medium.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical microlens array producing method.

Abstract: A light scanning device has a laser beam generator, a reflecting mirror supported by a rotatable device and a driving mechanism for driving the rotatable device. The rotatable device includes a stator having a plurality of electrodes and a rotor having a plurality of electrodes opposed to the stator electrodes. The rotor is rotatably provided on the stator and is driven by an electrostatic force generated by selectively applying a voltage to the stator electrodes while supported in a non-contact state with the stator. The mirror preferably has a single mirror surface and therefore can be driven at a high deflecting speed.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical waveguide array producing method.

Abstract: An optical scanning device comprising a light source for emitting a light beam on the basis of the image information, an optical waveguide array including plural optical waveguides each comprising a core portion formed at the center portion thereof for guiding the light beam from the light source therealong and a cladding portion formed so as to surround the core portion and each having a light incident end for receiving the light beam from the light source and a light emitting end for emitting the light beam guided along the core portion, and a polygonal mirror for successively distributing the light beam having the image information to each of the light incident ends of the optical waveguides in a spot form. The optical waveguides are arranged in such a manner that an interval between centers of neighboring cores is smaller than a spot diameter of the light beam incident to the light incident end of each of the optical waveguides.

Abstract: A light scanning device of the present invention comprises: a light source for emitting light; a liquid crystal shutter array comprising a plurality of liquid crystal shutters arranged in a first direction, the liquid crystal shutter array receiving image signals to selectively open the liquid crystal shutters in response to the image signals, to thereby selectively allow the light emitted from the light source to pass therethrough; a photosensitive member for receiving the light which has passed through the liquid crystal shutter array, said photosensitive member being conveyed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to thereby form a latent image thereon corresponding to the image signals; and focusing means provided on each of the liquid crystal shutters for focusing the light having passed through said liquid crystal shutter array onto the photosensitive member, the focusing means being formed of a photosetting material.