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| 20120129100 | ACTINIC RAY-SENSITIVE OR RADIATION-SENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, AND RESIST FILM AND PATTERN FORMING METHOD USING THE SAME - An actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition including: (PA) a compound having a proton acceptor functional group and undergoing decomposition upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation to generate a compound reduced in or deprived of proton acceptor property or changed to be acidic from being proton acceptor-functioning, wherein a molar extinction coefficient ε of the compound (PA) at a wavelength of 193 nm as measured in acetonitrile solvent is 55,000 or less, and a pattern forming method using the composition are provided. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120128126 | RADIATION PHASE IMAGE OBTAINMENT METHOD AND RADIATION PHASE IMAGE RADIOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - In a radiation phase image radiographic apparatus, a radiation image detector detects a periodic pattern image that has passed through a first grating and a second grating. The apparatus includes a magnification ratio obtainment unit that receives an input of a magnification ratio in magnification radiography to obtain the magnification ratio, a movement mechanism that moves, based on the magnification ratio, the radiation image detector relative to a subject in a direction away from the subject, a calibration data obtainment unit that obtains calibration data corresponding to the magnification ratio, and which are based on the periodic pattern image detected by the radiation image detector without placing the subject, and a phase contrast image generation unit that generates a phase contrast image based on the calibration data and the periodic pattern image detected by the radiation image detector with the subject placed. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127230 | Separation of Drive Pulses for Fluid Ejector - A method for causing fluid to be ejected from a fluid chamber of a jet in a printhead. An actuator is actuated with a first energy imparting pulse to push fluid away from the actuator and toward a nozzle. Following a lapse of a first interval, the actuator is actuated with second energy imparting pulse to push fluid away from the actuator and toward the nozzle. Following a lapse of a second interval as measured from the second energy imparting pulse, the actuator is actuated with a break-off pulse to cause fluid extending out of an orifice of the nozzle to break off from fluid within the nozzle, wherein the second lapse is longer than the first lapse and is an inverse of the meniscus-jet mass frequency. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126692 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE - An organic electroluminescence device which has on a substrate a pair of electrodes and a light emitting layer sandwiched between the electrodes, characterized by containing in the light emitting layer a compound represented by the following formula (1) and a particular indium complex; | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126691 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE - The organic electroluminescence device has, on a substrate thereof, a pair of electrodes and at least one organic layer including a light emitting layer between the electrodes, wherein the light emitting layer contains a phosphorescent complex material containing a specific monoanionic bidentate ligand and the device contains, in a layer sandwiched between the light emitting layer and a cathode, a compound represented by the following formula (1): | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126690 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE - As an organic electroluminescence device that has an excellent emission characteristic, suppresses a change in chromaticity when driving at a high temperature and has excellent durability, the organic electroluminescence device includes on a substrate a pair of electrodes and a light emitting layer disposed between the electrodes, in which the light emitting layer contains a compound represented by the following Formula (1) and a specific metal complex is provided. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126221 | CHARGE-TRANSPORTING MATERIAL AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE - A charge-transporting material contains a compound represented by the following formula (1) in an organic layer, in which the contents of specific halogen-containing compounds are 0.1% or less to the compound represented by formula (1). In formula (1), each of A | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126129 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes a photodetector substrate, a scintillator, a switching filter, and a resetting light source, which are arranged successively in this order. If the switching filter is made permeable to resetting light from the resetting light source, the switching filter allows resetting light to be applied to the photodetector substrate through the scintillator, whereas, if the switching filter is made impermeable to the resetting light, the switching filter reflects at least a fluorescence, which is converted from radiation by the scintillator, toward the photodetector substrate. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126124 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes a resetting light source, a switching filter, a photodetector substrate, and a scintillator, which are arranged successively in this order. If the switching filter is made permeable to resetting light from the resetting light source, the switching filter applies the resetting light to the photodetector substrate. If the switching filter is made impermeable to the resetting light, the switching filter reflects at least a fluorescence, which is converted from radiation by the scintillator, toward the photodetector substrate. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120123295 | BIOPSY NEEDLE, SAMPLE EXTRACTING UNIT, BIOPSY APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING BIOPSY NEEDLE - The present invention relates to a biopsy needle, a sample extracting unit, a biopsy apparatus, and a biopsy needle control method. The biopsy needle includes an outer tube and an inner tube movably disposed within the outer tube. The inner tube has a plurality of inner openings defined in a side wall thereof. The outer tube has at least one outer opening defined in a side wall thereof. In response to movement of the inner tube, the outer opening selectively overlaps one of the inner openings thereby to define a communication port which communicates with an interior of the inner tube. The biopsy needle is incorporated in the sample extracting unit and the biopsy apparatus, and is controlled by the biopsy control method. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120123209 | ENDOSCOPE GAS FEED SYSTEM, ENDOSCOPE, AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An endoscope gas feed system comprising:
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| 20120120348 | VA-MODE LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A VA-mode liquid-crystal display device comprising a front-side polarizing element, a rear-side polarizing element, a liquid-crystal layer disposed between the front-side polarizing element and the rear-side polarizing element, and a color filter disposed between the liquid-crystal layer and the rear-side polarizing element, wherein one or more retardation layers disposed between the rear-side polarizing element and the color filter layer (hereinafter the whole of one or more retardation layers disposed between the rear-side polarizing element and the color filter layer is referred to as “rear-side retardation region”) satisfies, as a whole, |Rth(590)|≦90 nm, is disclosed. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120120217 | MEDICAL IMAGE RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A medical image recording apparatus for recording observed images of a subject outputted from a medical instrument, includes: an image arithmetic portion which generates feature images by highlighting specific features contained in the observed images; a display portion which displays inputted display images; a display image switching portion which switches the display images outputted to the display portion to either the observed images or images including the feature images generated by the image arithmetic portion; and an image information recording portion which records, as an image file, image-relevant information including timing information at execution of image switching by the display image switching portion and image generation information for generating the feature images and image information of the observed images. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119097 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM - There is provided a radiographic imaging device including: an imaging panel at which sensor portions, that detect radiation or light converted from radiation, are formed at a detection region, and that captures a radiographic image expressed by radiation or light converted from radiation; a light illuminating section at which light-emitting portions, that can individually illuminate light for erasing residual images, are provided per sectional region obtained by dividing the detection region into the sectional regions; a storage section that stores imaging actual results information that expresses past actual results of imaging carried out by the imaging panel; and a control section that, in accordance with at least one of actual results of imaging and imaging conditions, controls absence/presence of illumination of, light amount of, and illumination time period of light from the respective light-emitting portions of the light illuminating section. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120118614 | CONDUCTIVE SHEET, METHOD FOR USING CONDUCTIVE SHEET, AND CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL - A conductive Sheet, a method for using conductive sheet, and a capacitive touch panel are provided. A first conductive sheet contains two or more conductive first large lattices and a first connection for electrically connecting the adjacent first large lattices on a first transparent substrate. The first large lattices each contain a combination of two or more small lattices, the first connection contains one or more medium lattices (a first medium lattice to a fourth medium lattice), and the pitch of the medium lattices is n times larger than that of the small lattices (in which n is a real number larger than 1). | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120116229 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD - An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus comprises: a detector for detecting a direction of radial expansion/contraction of a vascular wall associated with a heartbeat in a long-axis image of the vascular wall based on amplitude information of reception signals outputted from an ultrasound probe when a first ultrasonic beam is transmitted and received to and from a blood vessel of a subject through the ultrasound probe by a transmitter/receiver; a controller for controlling the transmitter/receiver so as to transmit and receive a second ultrasonic beam parallel to the detected vascular wall expansion/contraction direction through the ultrasound probe; a tracker for tracking a movement of the vascular wall using amplitude information and phase information of the reception signals outputted from the ultrasound probe when the second ultrasonic beam is transmitted and received; and a calculator for calculating elastic characteristics of the vascular wall based on the tracked vascular wall movement. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120116167 | ATTACHMENT FOR ENDOSCOPE AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - Provided is an attachment for an endoscope, the attachment being attached to a leading end part of the endoscope having a leading end surface on which an observation window for observing an inside of a subject's body and a first opening for jetting a constant-pressure supplied gas are formed, the attachment including: a second opening provided at a position separate from the leading end surface; a pipe conduit that communicates the first opening and the second opening with each other so as to jet the constant-pressure supplied gas from the second opening; and a region separating member that separates a jetting region of the constant-pressure supplied gas jetted from the second opening from a region of view of the observation window. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120116165 | DISTAL END HOOD FOR ENDOSCOPE AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - A distal end hood for an endoscope configured to be mounted on a distal end portion of an endoscope including an observation window, and a distal end surface of the distal end portion on which an opening is formed, the opening configured to spray a feed gas, the distal end hood for an endoscope including a conduit including: a first end portion on which a first opening is formed, the first opening being fitted together by insertion with an opening of the distal end surface of the distal end portion of the endoscope and being connectable to the opening; and a second end portion on which a second opening is formed, the second opening being disposed at a position away from the distal end surface toward a proximal end side of the endoscope. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115333 | POLYBENZOXAZOLE PRECURSOR, PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION USING THE SAME, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A polybenzoxazole precursor is represented by the following formula (1): | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120115085 | POSITIVE RESIST COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PATTERN FORMATION WITH THE SAME - A positive resist composition comprising: (A) a resin which comes to have an enhanced solubility in an alkaline developing solution by an action of an acid; (B) a compound which generates an acid upon irradiation with actinic rays or a radiation; (C) a fluorine-containing compound containing at least one group selected from the groups (x) to (z); and (F) a solvent, and a method of pattern formation with the composition: (x) an alkali-soluble group; (y) a group which decomposes by an action of an alkaline developing solution to enhance a solubility in an alkaline developing solution; and (z) a group which decomposes by an action of an acid. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114099 | RADIATION IMAGE DETECTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An acceleration sensor is installed in an electronic cassette. The acceleration sensor detects a shake. When magnitude of the shake, measured using the acceleration sensor, is greater than or equal to a shake detection threshold value, a judging circuit of a shake detecting section turns off a switching element. An operation switching section is disconnected from an irradiation detecting section that detects a start of X-ray irradiation. Thus, an irradiation detection function of the irradiation detecting section is disabled. After a predetermined time, the judging circuit outputs an ON signal to the switching element to turn on the switching element. Thereby, the irradiation detecting section resumes the irradiation detection. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114098 | RADIOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND RADIOGRAPHIC SYSTEM - A radiographic apparatus includes a first grating, a second grating, a scanning unit, and a radiological image detector. The second grating includes a periodic form that has a period which substantially coincides with a pattern period of a radiological image formed a radiation having passed through the first grating. The scanning unit relatively displaces the radiological image and the second grating to a plurality of relative positions at which phase differences between the radiological image and the second grating are different each other. The radiological image detector detects the radiological image masked by the second grating. The scanning unit includes a driving unit that drives one of the first grating and the second grating relatively to the other in a pattern arrangement direction of the radiological image and a plurality of elastic members that has natural frequencies different from each other. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120113186 | COATING DEVICE AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided are a coating device and an ink jet recording apparatus which are capable of stably coating process liquid in a good state. In a coating device that draws up process liquid reserved in a process liquid vessel by a drawing-up roller to supply the process liquid to a coating roller, the inside of the process liquid vessel is divided into a reservoir and a recovery chamber by a partition plate, and the process liquid is circulated and supplied so as to always overflow to the recovery chamber side. Thereby, the liquid level thereof can be always maintained constant, and the process liquid can be stably coated. In addition, since the process liquid is circulated and supplied, the liquid concentration and the liquid temperature can be easily controlled. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112142 | CURABLE COLORING COMPOSITION, COLOR FILTER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND QUINOPHTHALONE DYE - To provide a curable coloring composition that has good color hue, high transmittance properties, high light fastness and heat fastness, and excellent stability over time and solvent resistance after curing, a color filter that has good color hue, high transmittance properties, and excellent light fastness, heat fastness, and solvent resistance, and is compatible with high resolution, and a method for producing same. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120112075 | RADIATION DETECTOR - There is provided a radiation detector including: a support body; a scintillator layer that is deposited further to the inside than outside edges of the support body and that converts incident radiation into light; a photo detector plate that converts light emitted from the scintillator layer into charge and has a different linear expansion coefficient to that of the support body, the photo detector plate being adhered to the scintillator layer so as to form a gap between the photo detector plate and the support body; and a sealing layer of a resilient body that is poured into the gap and that covers a side face of the scintillator layer, such that a film thickness at the center portion of the sealing layer is thinner than a film thickness of the sealing layer at the support body side edges and at the photo detector plate side edges. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120108805 | CELLULOSE-BASED RESIN COMPOSITION, MOLDED BODY AND CASE FOR ELECTRIC AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A cellulose resin composition for melt molding, containing a cellulose derivative having two or more kinds of aliphatic oxy groups having different carbon numbers (—OR) (wherein R represents an aliphatic group which may be unsubstituted or substituted), wherein a difference in carbon number between the aliphatic oxy group having the largest carbon number and the aliphatic oxy group having the smallest carbon number is 1 to 18. The cellulose resin composition can provide good thermoplasticity and excellent mechanical strength, and can be used to prepare a molded body and a case for electric and electronic devices. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120108485 | MULTI-AGENT TYPE CLEANING KIT FOR SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATES, CLEANING METHOD USING THE SAME AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT - A multi-agent type cleaning kit for applying to semiconductor substrates, which contains a foaming agent having an alkylene carbonate and a carbonic acid salt, a foaming aid having an acidic compound, and an oxidizing agent; at least the foaming agent is mixed with the foaming aid upon using for the cleaning of a semiconductor substrate, in combination with the oxidizing agent. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120107563 | PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PATTERN, MEMS STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR DRY ETCHING, METHOD FOR WET ETCHING, MEMS SHUTTER DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - There is provided a method for producing a pattern, and the method includes forming a film by removing the solvent from a photosensitive resin composition containing (Component A) a polymer including a monomer unit (a1) having a residue of a carboxyl group or a phenolic hydroxyl group protected with an acid-decomposable group, and a monomer unit (a2) having an epoxy group and/or an oxetanyl group; (Component B) a photo acid generator; and (Component C) a solvent; exposing the film patternwise to an active radiation; developing the exposed film with an aqueous developer liquid to form a pattern; and baking the pattern by heating. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120107530 | Printing paper for printing stereoscopic image, stereoscopic image printed matter, and method for providing stereoscopic image - Provided is printing paper for printing a stereoscopic image, including a light-transmitting image-receiving layer ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120107518 | ANTIREFLECTION FILM, POLARIZING PLATE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A Method for producing an antireflection film comprising a transparent support, at least one hard coat layer, and a low refractive index layer, the method including: coating a coating composition for forming the hard coat layer on or above the transparent support and curing the coating composition for forming the hard coat layer upon irradiation with light in an atmosphere at an oxygen concentration of 1% or less to form the hard coat layer; and coating a coating composition for forming the low refractive index layer on or above the hard coat layer and curing the coating composition for forming the low refractive index layer upon irradiation with light in an atmosphere at an oxygen concentration of 1% or less to form the low refractive index layer. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106705 | RADIOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND RADIOGRAPHIC SYSTEM - A radiographic apparatus includes a radiation source that irradiates radiation, a first grating unit, a grating pattern unit, a radiological image detector, and a support unit. The radiation irradiated from the radiation source passes through the first grating unit. The grating pattern unit includes a periodic form that has a period which substantially coincides with a pattern period of a radiological image formed by the radiation having passed through the first grating unit. The radiological image detector detects a masked radiological image which is formed by masking the radiological image by the grating pattern unit. The support unit supports the radiation source, the first grating unit, the grating pattern unit and the radiological image detector. The radiation source is attached to the support unit via a vibration-proof member. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105882 | PRINT COLOR PREDICTING APPARATUS, PRINT COLOR PREDICTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A print color predicting apparatus, a print color predicting method, and a recording medium having a program recorded therein acquire a spectral reflectance of a print, estimate a plurality of sets of optical property values of a protective film that covers the print, depending on the spectral reflectance of the print, and predict a spectral reflectance of a protective-film-covered print, using the spectral reflectance of the print and the sets of optical property values of the protective film. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105769 | LIGHT DIFFUSING FILM, POLARIZING PLATE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF LIGHT DIFFUSING FILM - A light diffusing film contains a thermoplastic resin as the main component and containing, in the thermoplastic resin, (A) a light-transmitting particle having an average primary particle diameter of 1 to 10 μm, wherein there is substantially no refractive index difference between the thermoplastic resin and the light-transmitting particle, wherein one surface has concavoconvex shape, the total haze value is from 5 to 40%, and the average film thickness is from 20 to 200 μm. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104529 | COLORED COMPOSITION FOR LIGHT-SHIELDING FILM, LIGHT-SHIELDING PATTERN, METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME, SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides a colored composition for a light-shielding film including at least one selected from titanium atom-containing black titanium pigments and at least one organic pigment selected from the group consisting of a red organic pigment, a yellow organic pigment, a violet organic pigment, and an orange color organic pigment, which has a maximum value of the transmittance of light having a wavelength of 400 to 700 nm of 1.5% or less when a film is formed such that the light transmittance at a wavelength of 650 nm is 0.2%, has a wavelength showing the maximum transmittance at 400 to 550 nm, and has a light transmittance at a wavelength of 400 nm of 0.1% or more. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120101389 | WIRELESS ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM - An ultrasound diagnostic system includes at least one oscillator unit, at least one communication unit which processes and wirelessly transmits reception signals outputted from the at least one oscillator unit and from which the at least one oscillator unit is detachable, and a diagnostic apparatus body which acquires the reception signals through wireless communication with the at least one communication unit to generate an ultrasound image of the reception signals. The diagnostic apparatus body acquires identification information of the at least one oscillator unit and the at least one communication unit to establish the wireless communication with the at least one wireless communication unit so that the reception signals of a probe are wirelessly transmitted to the diagnostic apparatus body. The ultrasound diagnostic system has replaceable oscillator units and is capable of flexible and smooth wireless connection between the diagnostic apparatus body and a probe having desired settings. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120101372 | DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS, DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT METHOD, LESIONED PART DETECTION APPARATUS, AND LESIONED PART DETECTION METHOD - A diagnosis support apparatus, includes a spatial structure data acquisition device that acquires spatial structure data including tomographic information of a three-dimensional region of an inner wall portion within a living organism that has a flat surface at a normal time that is obtained by performing optical coherence tomography measurement with respect to the inner wall portion; a surface roughness calculation device that calculates an evaluation value of a surface roughness at respective positions on the surface of the inner wall portion based on the spatial structure data; a lesion part extraction device that extracts a region of a lesion part based on a position on the surface at which the evaluation value exceeds a predetermined threshold value; and a lesion part display device that displays information showing the region of the lesion part on an image in which the spatial structure data is visualized. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120101368 | MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Using a three-dimensional medical image representing a heart as input, a cardiac function analysis unit calculates a cardiac function evaluation value representing a cardiac function with respect to each of predetermined portions of the heart, using a three-dimensional medical image representing the heart as input, a myocardial infarction analysis unit calculates a myocardial infarction rate representing a degree of myocardial infarction with respect to each of predetermined portions of the heart, and a superimposed image output unit outputs a superimposed image representing the cardiac function evaluation value and the myocardial infarction rate in a superimposing manner such that they are distinguishable from each other in a coordinate system capable of representing each position of the heart in the three-dimensional medical image. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120101348 | ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM HAVING PROCESSOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING ENDOSCOPIC IMAGE - White light and excitation light are applied to an internal body part. An electronic endoscope captures a normal image of the internal body part irradiated with the white light, and a special image of autofluorescence emitted from living body tissue of the internal body part irradiated with the excitation light. An object distance detector detects an object distance between a CCD and an inspection area of the internal body part based on the normal image. A binning processing section applies a binning process to the special image. There are two types of binning processes, i.e. an intensity adjustment process and a resolution adjustment process. In the intensity adjustment process, the binning number is increased with increase in the object distance. In the resolution adjustment process, the binning number is decreased with increase in the object distance. Which process to perform is determined by operation on a processing type selector. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120101335 | ENDOSCOPE AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An endoscope comprising:
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| 20120101250 | NOVEL DEHYDROABIETIC ACID POLYMER - A dehydroabietic acid polymer includes a repeating unit containing a dehydroabietic acid skeleton, and a composite material including the same. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120101040 | ANGIOGENESIS INDUCING AGENT COMPRISING RECOMBINANT GELATIN - An object of the present invention is to provide a biologically safe and highly bioadhesive angiogenesis inducing agent. The present invention provides an angiogenesis inducing agent which comprises a recombinant gelatin having an amino acid sequence derived from a partial amino acid sequence of collagen. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120100481 | ACTINIC RAY-SENSITIVE OR RADIATION-SENSITIVE COMPOSITION AND PATTERN FORMING METHOD USING THE SAME - An actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive composition, including: (1) a low molecular compound having a molecular weight of 500 to 5,000 and containing (G) an acid-decomposable group; and (2) a compound capable of generating an acid of 305 Å | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099706 | GRID FOR RADIOGRAPHY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM - In an X-ray imaging system, first and second grids are disposed between an X-ray source and an X-ray image detector, and produce fringe images. From the fringe images, phase change information of X-rays is obtained. The phase change information provides contrast for an X-ray image. The first and second grids have similar configuration. Each grid is constituted of a grid layer and a support member. The grid layer includes X-ray absorbing portions and X-ray transparent portions arranged alternately in one direction. Each X-ray transparent portion contains hollow space having air trapped therein, for the purpose of reducing an X-ray absorption loss. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099705 | RADIOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND RADIOGRAPHIC SYSTEM - A radiographic apparatus includes a guide housing, a first grating unit, a radiological image detector and a grating pattern unit. The guide housing houses a first grating unit, the grating pattern unit, and a radiological image detector and supports a subject to which radiation is irradiated. The grating pattern unit includes a periodic form having a period and masks a radiological image formed by the radiation having passed through the first grating. The radiological image detector detects a masked radiological image which is formed by masking the radiological image by the grating pattern unit. The first grating unit and the grating pattern unit are supported by the guide housing with a buffer material being interposed between the first grating unit and the grating pattern unit and an inner wall of the guide housing. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099033 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS - A stereoscopic image recognition apparatus is provided and includes a liquid crystal display I and a time division image display shutter II. The liquid crystal display I includes a λ/4 plate A in a protection region for a the display side polarizing plate, the protection region being a region on the display side of a polarizer of the one of the polarizing plate. An angle formed by an absorption axis of the display side polarizing plate and a slow axis of the λ/4 plate A is 35 to 55° or 125 to 145°, and the protection region satisfies |Rth (550)|≦160 nm. The time division image display shutter II includes a polarizing plate C between the second liquid crystal cell and the viewer and includes a λ/4 plate B between the polarizing plate C and the liquid crystal display I. When the absorption axis of the display side polarizing plate and the absorption axis of the polarizing plate C are disposed so as to be perpendicular or parallel to each other, the slow axes of the λ/4 plate A and the λ/4 plate B are perpendicular or parallel to each other. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120098829 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM - A three-dimensional (3D) image display device enables easy recognition of a 3D image by appropriately changing the popout amount of a 3D image. The display device includes a timer setting and measuring a given time over which the popout amount of a 3D image changes, a popout amount change mode memory storing information on time dependent change of the popout amount occurring over the given time, a popout amount controller producing the popout amount for each unit time based on parallax between a plurality of images, the given time, and the time dependent change information, a changing image producer producing pairs of popout-amount-changing images from the plurality of images according to a popout amount by the unit time, a 3D image producer producing a corresponding popout-amount-changing 3D image, and a display controller. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120098079 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A photoelectric conversion device having: a pair of electrodes; a photoelectric conversion layer sandwiched between the pair of electrodes; and at least one electron blocking layer provided between one electrode of the pair of electrodes and the photoelectric conversion layer, wherein the photoelectric conversion layer contains at least one organic material, and the at least one electron blocking layer has a mixed layer containing fullerene or fullerene derivatives. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120095339 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe, an image producer, a monitor, a position designating unit for designating a target position when paracentesis is performed, an insertion position calculating unit for calculating an insertion position from information on the target position designated by the position designating unit and a predetermined insertion angle and an insertion position display unit for displaying the insertion position calculated by the insertion position calculating unit. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus ensures that a puncture needle inserted from a position away from an ultrasound probe to reduce the insertion angle so as to be imaged at a higher definition can also reach a target site. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120095329 | Biopsy apparatus, phantom, spatial range measuring apparatus, and spatial range measuring method - A biopsy apparatus includes a biopsy needle for insertion into an object to be examined in order to sample tissue of a biopsy region in the object, and a spatial range measuring section, which measures a spatial range within which the biopsy needle is capable of sampling the tissue of the biopsy region, based on an image of a phantom that simulates the object, which is captured after the biopsy needle has been inserted into the phantom and a portion of the phantom has been extracted. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120095195 | COLORING MATTER, INK, INK FOR INK JET, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, COLOR TONER, AND COLOR FILTER - [Problem] To provide a coloring matter which has a good hue, and is capable of forming an image high in fastness property under various use conditions and environmental conditions, and particularly suitable for an ink. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120095194 | COLORING MATTER, INK, INK FOR INK JET, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, COLOR TONER, AND COLOR FILTER - [Problem] To provide a coloring matter which has a good hue, and is capable of forming an image high in fastness property under various use conditions and environmental conditions, and particularly suitable for an ink. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120094397 | DETECTION METHOD AND DETECTION SYSTEM - In a detection method for detecting the quantity of a target material, a labeled binding material in the amount corresponding to the quantity of the target material contained in a liquid specimen is bonded to the top of a sensor portion; and a signal based on light emitted from a label in an evanescent field or an enhanced optical field produced on a surface of the sensor portion when the sensor portion is irradiated with excitation light is detected. After the labeled binding material is bonded to the immobilization layer, the signal is detected while the fluid over the sensor portion is controlled to flow at a constant flow rate at which bonds between the labeled binding material and the immobilization layer are not broken and the above signal can be detected with a greater magnitude than when the liquid specimen exists over the sensor portion at rest. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120094237 | ACTINIC RAY-SENSITIVE OR RADIATION-SENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION AND PATTERN FORMING METHOD USING THE SAME - An actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition including: (A) a resin that contains a repeating unit represented by formula (I) as defined in the specification, a repeating unit represented by formula (II) as defined in the specification and a repeating unit represented by formula (III-a) or (III-b) as defined in the specification; (B) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation; and (C) a solvent, wherein the solvent (C) contains ethyl lactate, and a film and a pattern forming method using the composition are provided. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120094235 | ACTINIC-RAY- OR RADIATION-SENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF FORMING PATTERN USING THE COMPOSITION - According to one embodiment, an actinic-ray- or radiation-sensitive resin composition includes a resin (A) whose solubility in an alkali developer is increased by the action of an acid, the resin containing any of the units of general formula (AI) below and any of the units of general formula (AII) below, and a compound (B) that when exposed to actinic rays or radiation, generates an acid with any of the structures of general formula (BI) below. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120094118 | INFRARED LIGHT REFLECTOR, INFRARED LIGHT REFLECTING LAMINATED GLASS, AND LAMINATED GLASS AND LAMINATE HAVE CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTAL LAYERS - To provide an infrared-light reflective plate having improved selective reflectivity characteristics, there is provided an infrared-light reflective plate reflects an infrared-light of equal to or longer than 700 nm including a substrate, and, on at least one of surfaces of the substrate, at least four light-reflective layers, X | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120093388 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A medical image processing apparatus in which an index value calculation unit calculates an index value representing a characteristic of a tubular structure extracted from a three-dimensional medical image in each direction of radial visual lines orthogonal to a core line of the tubular structure at each of a plurality of points on the core line with each point as each viewpoint and a map image generation unit generates a characteristic map image representing the characteristic inside of the tubular structure by mapping the index value calculated in each direction of the radial visual lines at each point on the core line to a coordinate plane defined by a first coordinate component representing a position in a direction of the core line and a second coordinate component representing a direction of each visual line. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120093291 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING PROGRAM, AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING METHOD - The present invention provides a radiographic imaging device including: a detecting section that detects a dose of radiation that has been irradiated when imaging a radiographic image corresponding to irradiated radiation; and a determining section that determines whether the radiographic image is a valid image on the basis of the dose of radiation that has been detected by the detecting section. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092595 | Optical film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device - An optical film is provided and includes: a transparent support satisfying the following expressions (1) and (2); and an optically anisotropic layer having a λ/4 function. The optical film has an Rth (550) satisfying a relation of |Rth (550)|≦20. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092594 | OPTICAL FILM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An optical film contains a cellulose acylate film, and at least two layers of an optically anisotropic layer A and an optically anisotropic layer B, wherein the cellulose acylate film satisfies the specific formulae, Re(548) of the optically anisotropic layer A is from 80 to 190 nm and the slow axis of the optically anisotropic layer A is at 45°±10° with respect to the film conveying direction, and the optically anisotropic layer B satisfies the specific formulae. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120092522 | IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus displays and records any area in a synthesized image according to user's taste. The synthesized image is displayed based on the set display area and the record area is set to display the synthesized image, so that the display area is compared with the record area to enable easily confirming whether the actually acquired synthesized image satisfies the area desired by the user and assisting recording in an area where a better composition is provided even if the user is unfamiliar with the composition. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120091495 | LIGHT REFLECTING SUBSTRATE AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURE THEREOF - A light reflecting substrate comprises at least: an insulating layer and a metal layer disposed in contact with the insulating layer. The total reflectivity of light in the wavelength range of more than 320 nm and not more than 700 nm is not less than 50% and the total reflectivity of light in the wavelength range of 300 nm to 320 nm is not less than 60%. The light reflecting substrate further improves the emission power of the light-emitting device when used as the substrate therefor. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120091353 | RADIATION DETECTOR, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, RADIATION DETECTION METHOD, RADIATION DETECTION PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, AND CONTROLLER - A radiation detector includes a detection unit, a detection control unit, an image analyzing unit and a determination unit. The detection unit detects radiographic image data by plural pixels that convert applied radiation into electrical signals and store the electrical signals. The detection control unit controls the detection unit so as to determine that radiation has been applied if a read value obtained by reading the electric signals stored in the plural pixels is equal to or greater than a threshold value, and acquire radiographic image data corresponding to radiation that has passed through a subject. The image analyzing unit performs an image analysis with respect to the radiographic image if the read value is equal to or greater than the threshold value. The determination unit determines based on the result of the image analysis whether or not the radiographic image has been detected at an intended timing. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120091352 | RADIATION DETECTOR, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, RADIATION DETECTION METHOD, AND RADIATION DETECTION PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - A radiation detector includes an image data detecting unit that detects, as radiographic image data, charge information corresponding to applied radiation; a control unit that determines that radiation has been applied if a read value of the detected charge information is equal to or greater than a threshold value and controls the image data detecting unit to acquire radiographic image data corresponding to radiation that has passed through a subject; and a changing unit that changes the threshold value in accordance with temperature data of the image data detecting unit. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120089016 | DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING APPARATUS, DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING PROGRAM, AND DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING METHOD - A diagnosis assisting apparatus, method, and program include calculating a first index value representing a direction and magnitude of motion of each portion of the heart for a three-dimensional anatomical image at a given phase of a three-dimensional anatomical image group representing a heart at each phase with respect to a further phase, calculating a second index value that serves as a diagnostic indicator of each portion of the heart from the three-dimensional anatomical image at the given phase or the three-dimensional anatomical image group, generating a two-dimensional image of the entire heart in which the second index value of each portion of the heart is disposed in a planar fashion, and displaying a mark representing the first index value superimposed on the generated two-dimensional image in a manner that allows the direction of motion of the first index value to be visually recognized. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120088910 | COLORING MATTER, INK, INK FOR INK JET, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, COLOR TONER, AND COLOR FILTER - [Problem] To provide a coloring matter which has a good hue, and is capable of forming an image high in fastness property under various use conditions and environmental conditions, and particularly suitable for an ink. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120088194 | METHOD OF FORMING PATTERNS - A method of forming patterns includes (a) coating a substrate with a resist composition for negative development to form a resist film, wherein the resist composition contains a resin capable of increasing the polarity by the action of the acid and becomes more soluble in a positive developer and less soluble in a negative developer upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation, (b) forming a protective film on the resist film with a protective film composition after forming the resist film and before exposing the resist film, (c) exposing the resist film via an immersion medium, and (d) performing development with a negative developer. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120088189 | CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION, TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILM, DISPLAY ELEMENT AND INTEGRATED SOLAR BATTERY - To provide a conductive composition including: a binder, a photosensitive compound, metal nanowires, and a solvent, wherein the solvent has a solubility parameter value of 30 MPa | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120088041 | Polarizer protective film, polarizer, and liquid crystal display device - A polarizer protective film having a cellulose acylate film containing a cellulose acylate and a hindered amine compound in an amount of at least 0.01% by mass relative to the cellulose acylate, and, as laminated on the cellulose acylate film, an active energy ray-curable layer, wherein the hindered amine compound has a piperidine skeleton represented by the following formula (1): | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120088037 | PROCESS OF PREPARING LIGHT REFLECTIVE FILM - A process stably produces a light reflective film with plural light reflective layers formed of a fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phase, having high transparency and excellent light-reflective characteristics. The process of preparing a light reflective film having at least two light reflective layers formed of a fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phase includes first allowing a curable liquid crystal composition to form a cholesteric liquid crystal phase on a first light reflective layer formed of a fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phase, then carrying out a curing reaction of the curable liquid crystal composition under an irradiation of an ultraviolet light to fix the cholesteric liquid-crystal phase, thereby to form a second light reflective layer. In the second step, the ultraviolet light is irradiated to the curable liquid crystal composition through a member capable of lowering at least the intensity of the ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 340 nm or shorter. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086904 | INFRARED-LIGHT REFLECTIVE PLATE AND INFRARED-LIGHT REFLECTIVE LAMINATED GLASS - An infrared-light reflective plate reflects an infrared-light ≧700 nm including a substrate of which fluctuation of retardation in plane at a wavelength of 1000 nm, Re(1000), ≧20 nm, on a surface of the substrate, at least two light-reflective layers, X1 and X2, formed of a fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phase, and, on another surface of the substrate, at least two light-reflective layers, Y1 and Y2, formed of a fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phase. The reflection center wavelengths of X1 and X2 are both λ | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120084783 | AUTOMATED OPERATION LIST GENERATION DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - Selection of operations in a desired order and, as necessary, input of processing parameters by the user are received. Based on each operation corresponding to the received input, operation information, which classifies the operation corresponding to the input into a non-routine operation, which requires input of a processing parameter during execution of an automated operation list, or a routine operation other than the non-routine operation in advance, is obtained. Then, an automated operation list is generated based on the obtained operation information by registering, if the operation corresponding to the input is a routine operation, the operation corresponding to the input in the automated operation list with associating, as necessary, a necessary processing parameter for the operation with the operation, and registering, if the operation corresponding to the input is a non-routine operation, the operation corresponding to the input in the automated operation list. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084096 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR GENERATING DIAGNOSTIC RESULT EXPLANATION REPORTS - A diagnostic result explanation report generating apparatus is equipped with: a diagnostic information storing section, a comment information storing section, a template storing section for storing explanation templates having insertion regions, into which at least portions of the diagnostic information and the comment information are insertable, prepared for each of the various diagnostic results; an input section, for inputting patient specifying information; a diagnostic information obtaining section, for obtaining diagnostic information for a patient, based on the input patient specifying information; a template obtaining section, for obtaining an explanation template which is prepared for a diagnostic result, based on a diagnostic result included in the obtained diagnostic information; a comment information obtaining section, for obtaining comment information from the comment information storing section; and a diagnostic result explanation generating section, for inserting necessary diagnostic information and comment information into the obtained explanation template, to generate a diagnostic result explanation report. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084095 | PATIENT BURDEN EASING SUPPORT APPARATUS, PATIENT BURDEN EASING SUPPORT METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An endoscopic sector server as a patient burden easing support apparatus executes a step of acquiring preparation completion information indicating that preparation for an endoscopic inspection has been completed, a step of acquiring inspection start information indicating that the endoscopic inspection has been started, a determination step of determining whether predetermined conditions about a time between acquisition of the preparation completion information and acquisition of the inspection start information are satisfied or not, and a warning step of outputting warning information when determination is made that the predetermined conditions are satisfied. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120083696 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR RECONSTRUCTING INTRA-TUBULAR-STRUCTURE IMAGE - A tubular structure, such as a blood vessel, of a subject is extracted from each of a three-dimensional image representing the tubular structure and a three-dimensional intra-tubular-structure image that has been generated from plural tomographic images of the tubular structure obtained by performing tomography on the tubular structure plural times from the inside of the tubular structure along a path in the tubular structure. Further, an arbitrary range in one of the tubular structure extracted from the three-dimensional image and the tubular structure extracted from the three-dimensional intra-tubular-structure image is correlated with a corresponding range in the other one of the tubular structures. Further, a projection three-dimensional image is generated by projecting an image of a specific structure included in the range in the three-dimensional intra-tubular-structure image into the correlated range in the three-dimensional image. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120083656 | ENDOSCOPE LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND ENDOSCOPY SYSTEM - An endoscope light source unit comprising: a first light source section emitting a first illumination light composed of white light; a second light source section emitting a second illumination light orthogonally to a direction in which the first illumination light travels; a light combining member transmitting the first illumination light through a transmission section and, at the same time, reflecting the second illumination light by means of a reflection section to form a combined light so that a beam of the second illumination light may be located in a central part of a beam of the first illumination light; a shaping lens for modifying the beam of the second illumination light emitted; and a condenser lens for converging the combined light. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082939 | ACTIVE LIGHT RAY SENSITIVE OR RADIOACTIVE RAY SENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, AND ACTIVE LIGHT RAY SENSITIVE OR RADIOACTIVE RAY SENSITIVE FILM AND PATTERN FORMING METHOD USING THE SAME - An active light ray sensitive or radioactive ray sensitive resin composition which satisfies high sensitivity, high resolution, good pattern configuration, and good line edge roughness at the same time to a great extent, while having sufficiently good outgassing performance during exposure, and an active light ray sensitive or radioactive ray sensitive film formed by using the composition, and a pattern-forming method, are provided. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082855 | Optical film, polarizing plate, image display device, and method for manufacturing optical film - An optical film contains a transparent base material having thereon a hard coat layer formed of a hard coat layer forming composition containing the specific components, wherein a refractive index of the hard coat layer is 1.45 or more and not more than 1.55; and in the hard coat layer forming composition, a content of the component (a) is a content of the component (b) or more. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082836 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR LASER ENGRAVING, RESIN PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING, RELIEF PRINTING PLATE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF RELIEF PRINTING PLATE - A resin composition for laser engraving contains a hydrophilic polymer and a light-to-heat conversion agent having an absorption maximum wavelength in a range of from 700 to 1,300 nm. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082298 | RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE DISPLAYING DEVICE AND METHOD - A problem at the time of stereoscopic viewing of auxiliary lines for making a three-dimensional effect easy to figure out when displaying a stereoscopic image using a radiological image is solved. Auxiliary lines are added to two radiological images for displaying a stereoscopic image. The auxiliary lines are formed by a plurality of grids arrayed so as to be viewed in the depth direction. Lines which form the grids are disposed at positions, which are distant from positions vertically facing a focal point at the time of radiographing, on the radiological images. In addition, the lines which form the grids may be disposed at positions distant from a position, which bisects positions vertically facing a plurality of focal points at the time of radiographing when acquiring the radiological images, on each of the radiological images. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082295 | Radiographic imaging apparatus, radiographic imaging system, image processing device, and computer-readable recording medium for storing program - There is provided a radiographic imaging apparatus including: a radiation source configured to separately emit high energy radiation and low energy radiation by virtue of inverse Compton scattering; an imaging section configured to separately capture a radiographic image with the high energy radiation and a radiographic image with the low energy radiation that are emitted from the radiation source onto a same site to be imaged; and an image processing section configured to perform image processing in which an energy subtraction image is produced by performing a weighting calculation such that the radiographic image captured with the high energy radiation and the radiographic image captured with the low energy radiation by the imaging section are weighted for corresponding pixels according to a distance from a center of the radiation emitted from the radiation source. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120082293 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE - There is provided a radiographic imaging device including: a radiation source that irradiates radiation and can move to a directly-facing position at which the radiation source directly faces the object of imaging in a directly-facing direction, a first diagonal incidence position that is at an angle to the directly-facing position, and a second diagonal incidence position that is at an angle at a side opposite the first diagonal incidence position to the directly-facing position; a radiation detector; and a control section that acquires radiologist information relating to an radiologist and, on the basis of the acquired radiologist information, selects one of the first diagonal incidence position and the second diagonal incidence position, wherein the radiographic imaging device captures radiographic images at the directly-facing position and at one of the first diagonal incidence position and the second diagonal incidence position selected by the control section. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120081653 | LIGHT-REFLECTING FILM AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - A method of producing a light-reflecting film having a light-reflecting layer on a resin film and reflecting 30% or more of incident light of a wavelength in the range of 800 to 2000 nm, includes a step of curing a cholesteric liquid crystal phase to form the light-reflecting layer, the cholesteric liquid crystal phase is obtained by mixing a chiral agent having an HTP of 30 μm | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120081635 | Light diffusing film, polarizing plate, liquid crystal display device and production method of light diffusing film - A light diffusing film contains a thermoplastic resin as the main component and contains, in the thermoplastic resin, at least one kind of a light-transmitting particle having an average primary particle diameter of 3 to 10 μm, wherein the absolute value of the refractive index difference between the thermoplastic resin and the light-transmitting particle is from 0.01 to 0.06, wherein one surface has concavoconvex shape, the total haze value is from 15 to 30%, the internal haze value is from 5 to 25%, the surface haze value is from 5 to 20%, and the average film thickness is from 20 to 200 μm. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120081364 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE EDITING DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE EDITING METHOD - When editing a three-dimensional image whose size differs when outputted from its size at the time of editing, the image producer may not be able to set an appropriate pop-out amount or a backward depth when editing. A pop-out amount range applicable to the size of a three-dimensional image as printed is displayed based on the size of the three-dimensional image as printed, and a pop-out amount range applicable to the size of a three-dimensional image as displayed is displayed based on the size of the three-dimensional image as displayed. Therefore, a three-dimensional image can be edited by noting the range of the pop-out amount applicable to the three-dimensional image as printed. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120080675 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERTER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERTER AND IMAGING DEVICE - A photoelectric converter includes a pair of electrodes and a plurality of organic layers. The pair of electrodes is provided above a substrate. The plurality of organic layers is interposed between the pair of electrodes and includes a photoelectric conversion layer and a given organic layer being formed on one electrode of the pair of electrodes. The one electrode is one of pixel electrodes arranged two-dimensionally. The given organic layer has a concave portion that is formed in a corresponding position located above a step portion among the arranged pixel electrodes. An angle θ of the concave portion is less than 50°, where an inclination angle of a tangent plane at a given point on the concave portion to a surface plane of the substrate is defined as θ. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120080638 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, MAGNETIC RECORDING-USE MAGNETIC POWDER AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME - An aspect of the present invention relates to a magnetic recording medium comprising a magnetic layer comprising ferromagnetic powder and a binder, wherein the ferromagnetic powder is magnetic powder comprised of gathering magnetic particles, the magnetic particles are a reduction product of hexagonal ferrite magnetic particles wherein a ratio Dc/Dtem of a crystallite size Dc obtained from a diffraction peak of a (220) plane to a particle diameter Dtem in a direction perpendicular to a (220) plane as determined by a transmission electron microscope ranges from 0.90 to 0.75. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120080585 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF, PHOTOSENSOR, IMAGING DEVICE AND THEIR DRIVING METHOD - To provide a photoelectric conversion element capable of functioning as a photoelectric conversion element when a compound having a specific structure is applied to the photoelectric conversion element, causing the element to exhibit a low dark current, and reducing the range of increase in the dark current even when the element is heat-treated, and an imaging device equipped with such a photoelectric conversion element. A photoelectric conversion element having a photoelectric conversion film which is sandwiched between a transparent electrically conductive film and an electrically conductive film and contains a photoelectric conversion layer and an electron blocking layer, wherein the electron blocking layer contains a compound having, as a substituent, a substituted amino group containing three or more ring structures. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120078189 | NEEDLE ARRAY TRANSDERMAL ABSORPTION SHEET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING NEEDLE ARRAY TRANSDERMAL ABSORPTION SHEET - A needle array transdermal absorption sheet to be attached onto a skin for supplying a drug into the skin, includes: a plurality of needle portions each having a tapered shape, each of the needle portions including a needle having a conical or pyramidal shape and a body part which has a columnar shape and whose end surface is connected to a base of the needle; a sheet portion having a flat-plate shape; and a plurality of frustum portions each having a frustum shape, the frustum portions which are arranged on a surface of the sheet portion in a manner that perimeters of larger bases of adjacent frustum portions are in contact with each other on the surface of the sheet portion, and smaller bases of which are respectively connected to the body parts of the needle portions. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078111 | ULTRASOUND PROBE - An ultrasound probe comprises: a transducer array having an ultrasound transmission/reception surface; a housing for containing a transducer array, a transmission/reception board, a wireless communication board and a battery; and a puncture guide fixed to the housing and having a puncture needle insertion port located on a line extending in a direction of arrangement of the transducer array, wherein when the ultrasound transmission/reception surface of the transducer array is in a horizontal posture, the probe has a center of gravity lying between a center of arrangement of the transducer array and the puncture needle insertion port of the puncture guide in the direction of arrangement of the transducer array and, at the same time, being almost in accordance with a centerline of arrangement of the transducer array in a direction orthogonal to the direction of arrangement of the transducer array. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078110 | ULTRASOUND PROBE - An ultrasound probe comprises: a transducer array having an ultrasound transmission/reception surface; a processing circuit mounted on a signal processing board for processing an ultrasonic echo from a subject received with the transducer array to produce a reception signal; a housing including a transducer array compartment for housing the transducer array at one end and the signal processing board near the transducer array, the housing including a projection at another end projecting in a given direction perpendicular to a center line of an arrangement of the transducer array and a grip between the projection and the transducer array compartment for holding from the given direction, a center of gravity lying in a position away from the center line of the arrangement of the transducer array in the given direction when the ultrasound transmission/reception surface of the transducer array is in a horizontal posture. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078103 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, ULTRASOUND IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, AND ULTRASOUND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, ultrasound image generation apparatus and method transmit ultrasound waves to a subject into which a puncture tool is inserted, receive reflected waves reflected from the subject and the puncture tool, and generate echo signals of time-sequential frames based on the received reflected waves, and generate an ultrasound image of the subject based on the generated echo signals. These apparatus and method generate a differential echo signal between time-sequential frames from the echo signals, perform a tip detection process based on the differential echo signal to thereby detect at least one tip candidate including a tip end of the puncture tool, highlight a tip candidate of the puncture tool detected to thereby generate a tip image, and display the tip image of the highlighted puncture tool so as to be superimposed on the generated ultrasound image. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078046 | ENDOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An endoscopic image display apparatus reads taken image data in which a taken image outputted from an endoscope is recorded, and reproduces and displays the taken image. The taken image data includes intensity information about a plurality of fundamental color components. The endoscopic image display apparatus includes an intensity changing unit which selectively reduces intensity of a specific color component in the taken image data by using the intensity information. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078045 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, ENDOSCOPE IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, ENDOSCOPE IMAGE ACQUISITION ASSISTING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Plural predetermined examination parts of a patient are imaged sequentially and still images of the respective examination parts are thereby acquired by inserting an endoscope insertion unit having an imaging optical system in its tip portion into the body cavity of the patient. To this end, the number of still images taken is counted every time one of the predetermined examination parts. The counted number of still images taken is compared with a preset number of images which corresponds to the number of the plural predetermined examination parts. An alert is generated when non-coincidence is detected between the counted number of still images taken and the preset number. The operator is thus notified of occurrence of a failure to image. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078044 | ENDOSCOPE DEVICE - The endoscope device includes an imaging section that captures an image of a subject using light returned from a living body after a narrow band light and a wide band light are simultaneously emitted from a first and second light source sections to the subject, and outputs captured image information, an image processing section that performs a predetermined image processing on the captured image information and an imaging information detecting section that detects as imaging information an automatic exposure value or an imaging magnification for capturing the subject, or subject information related to a structure and a component of the living body of the subject. Light emission conditions of the first and second light source sections and an image processing condition of the image processing section are changed based on the imaging information. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120077131 | METHOD OF FORMING PATTERN USING ACTINIC-RAY OR RADIATION-SENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, AND PATTERN - According to one embodiment, a method of forming a pattern includes the step of applying an actinic-ray- or radiation-sensitive resin composition on a substrate so as to form a film, the step of selectively exposing the film through a mask and the step of developing the exposed film with the use of a developer containing an organic solvent, wherein the actinic-ray- or radiation-sensitive resin composition contains a resin (A) whose polarity is increased by the action of an acid so that the solubility of the resin in the developer containing an organic solvent is decreased, a photoacid generator (B) that when exposed to actinic rays or radiation, generates an acid containing a fluorine atom and a solvent (C), and wherein the photoacid generator (B) is contained in the composition in a ratio of 8 to 20 mass % based on the total solids of the composition. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120077122 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD, CHEMICAL AMPLIFICATION RESIST COMPOSITION AND RESIST FILM - A pattern forming method includes: (i) forming a film from a chemical amplification resist composition that contains (A) a resin, (B) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation and (C) a tertiary alcohol; (ii) exposing the film; and (iii) performing development by using a developer containing an organic solvent. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120077047 | Antistatic hardcoat layer-forming composition, optical film, production method of optical film, polarizing plate and image display device - A antistatic hard coat layer-forming composition having the following (a), (b), (c) and (d): (a) an ion-conducting compound, (b) a polyethylene oxide compound having one or more photopolymerizable groups, having no hydroxyl group, and having a —(CH | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120077046 | Composition for forming hardcoat layer, optical film, method of producing optical film, polarizing plate and image display device - A composition for forming a hardcoat layer, contains: at least one antifouling agent selected from a fluorine-containing compound having a polymerizable unsaturated group and a polysiloxane compound having a weight average molecular weight of 15,000 or more and a polymerizable unsaturated group; dimethyl carbonate; a compound having an unsaturated double bond; and a photopolymerization initiator. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076997 | ACTINIC-RAY- OR RADIATION-SENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, ACTINIC-RAY- OR RADIATION-SENSITIVE FILM THEREFROM AND METHOD OF FORMING PATTERN - Provided is an actinic-ray- or radiation-sensitive resin composition, including a resin comprising a repeating unit (A), the a repeating unit (A) containing a structural moiety (S1) that when acted on by an acid, is decomposed to thereby generate an alkali-soluble group and a structural moiety (S2) that when acted on by an alkali developer, is decomposed to thereby increase its rate of dissolution in the alkali developer, and a repeating unit (B) that when exposed to actinic rays or radiation, generates an acid. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076996 | RESIST COMPOSITION, RESIST FILM THEREFROM AND METHOD OF FORMING PATTERN THEREWITH - Provided is a resist composition, including (A) a resin that when acted on by an acid, is decomposed to thereby increase its solubility in an alkali developer, (B) a compound that when exposed to actinic rays or radiation, generates an acid, the compound being any of those of general formulae (I) and (II) below, (C) a resin containing at least either a fluorine atom or a silicon atom, and (D) a mixed solvent containing a first solvent and a second solvent, at least either the first solvent or the second solvent exhibiting a normal boiling point of 200° C. or higher. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076991 | SURFACE-TREATING AGENT FOR PATTERN FORMATION AND PATTERN-FORMING METHOD USING THE SURFACE-TREATING AGENT - A surface-treating agent for forming a resist pattern, includes: a compound represented by formula (1) as defined in the specification, wherein the surface-treating agent is used in a step between a formation of a first resist pattern on a first resist film and a formation of a second resist film on the first resist pattern to form a second resist pattern, and a pattern-forming method uses the surface-treating agent. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076956 | Polarizing plate, liquid crystal display device using the same and moisture- and heat-resistant protective film for polarizing plate - A polarizing plate comprising a polarizing film, and on one surface thereof, a cellulose acylate film having a thickness of equal to or less than 77 micro meters, and a layer having a negative photoelastic coefficient is disclosed. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076955 | Optical film and its production method, polarizer and liquid crystal display device - An optical film having a core layer containing a (meth)acrylic resin having a lactone ring structure, and an outer layer containing a cellulose acetate with a thickness of from more than 3 μm to 20 μm on at least one side of the core layer is excellent in nonbrittleness and adhesiveness to a polarizing element. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076951 | BLACK INK COMPOSITION, INK SET, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A black ink composition includes: carbon black and a water-insoluble resin that covers at least a part of the surface of the carbon black; a cyan pigment and a water-insoluble resin that covers at least a part of the surface of the cyan pigment; a magenta pigment and a water-insoluble resin that covers at least a part of the surface of the magenta pigment; water-insoluble resin particle; and water, wherein a content ratio of the carbon black is from 1.0 to 2.0% by mass with respect to the total mass of the composition, and a total amount of pigments is from 1.8 to 3.5% by mass with respect to the total mass of the composition. The black ink composition can be used in an ink set and an image forming method. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076950 | CURABLE COMPOSITION FOR IMPRINTS AND PRODUCING METHOD OF POLYMERIZABLE MONOMER FOR IMPRINTS - Provided is a curable composition for imprints excellent in pattern transferability. Disclosed is a curable composition for imprints comprising a polymerizable monomer (A) and a polymerization initiator (B), which is substantially free from a polymer which contains at least one species of the polymerizable monomer (A) as a repeating unit. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076948 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CURABLE COMPOSITION FOR IMPRINTS - Provided is a method for producing a curable composition for imprints which excellent in patternability. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076399 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE EDITING DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE EDITING METHOD - Even when the size of a three-dimensional image is changed, the pop-out amount is automatically adjusted to one intended by the user. The pop-out amount is adjusted based on a conversion characteristic defining a relationship between the size and the pop-out amount of a three-dimensional image as the size of the three-dimensional image is changed, and therefore the pop-out amount of the three-dimensional image can be automatically adjusted to a given pop-out amount preferred by the user or intended by the user. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076398 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PASTING SYSTEM, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - It is arranged so that stereoscopic images will not overlap one another. A stereoscopic image to be pasted in a free-layout electronic album is selected. The amount of parallax of the stereoscopic image to be pasted in this electronic album is set. When this is done, the selected stereoscopic image is enlarged or reduced in size so as to take on the set amount of parallax. Automatic layout for pasting enlarged or reduced stereoscopic images on each page of the electronic album in such a manner that these stereoscopic images will not overlap one another is carried out. The result of the layout is displayed. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076388 | RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided is a technique of displaying auxiliary lines so as to make it easy to catch the sense of depth when displaying a stereoscopic image using radiological images. Auxiliary lines are added on two radiological images for displaying a stereoscopic image, respectively. The auxiliary lines are made up of a plurality of grids appearing to be arranged in the depth direction, and the display modes of adjacent grids are different. For example, at least one of the colors, thicknesses, kinds, luminance levels, blinking methods, and directions of the lines of the adjacent grids are different. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076275 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A radiographic imaging apparatus with which the rotation amount of acquired radiographs can be the same in comparative interpretation of these images. The radiographic imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit for emitting radiation from a radiation source to a subject and detecting radiation having passed through the subject with a radiation detector having sensors arrayed therein to acquire a radiographic image, an image processor for performing rotation processing on the radiographic image to produce an acquired radiograph and collateral information of the acquired radiograph, a storage unit for storing the acquired radiograph and the collateral information, and a monitor for displaying the acquired radiograph. The collateral information contains the direction in which the sensors are arrayed and a rotation angle used in the rotation processing and is correlated to the acquired radiograph. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076274 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE IMAGING DEVICE, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE IMAGING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE IMAGING PROGRAM - A radiographic image imaging device is provided. The device includes: an acquisition component that acquires battery remaining power amount information representing an amount of power remaining in a battery, which is incorporated in a portable radiographic image imaging device and supplies power to the portable radiographic image imaging device, the portable radiographic image imaging device detecting radiation irradiated at a subject of imaging and generating a radiographic image; a calculation component that calculates a possible standby duration of the portable radiographic image imaging device on the basis of the battery remaining power amount information acquired by the acquisition component and a number of images of the portable radiographic image imaging device; and a display component that displays the number of images and the possible standby duration. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076273 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus capable of clipping a diagnostic region while retaining the pixel information of the original radiographic image even when the subject is imaged aslant. The image processing apparatus applies trimming processing to a radiographic image acquired by an imaging apparatus for acquiring a radiographic image of a subject and includes an image rotation unit for rotating the radiographic image so that the subject is aligned with a given direction to produce a display image, a diagnostic region designation unit for designating a first diagnostic region clipped with a diagnostic region designation frame represented by a rectangle for the display image, and a trimming processing unit for calculating a second diagnostic region in the radiographic image from a rotation amount of the display image and diagnostic region information representing the first diagnostic region and applying trimming processing to the radiographic image to clip the second diagnostic region. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076267 | RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE RADIOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Disclosed is a technique for correcting a pixel defect in the capture of two radiological images with parallax therebetween. Radiation beam is directly radiated to a radiation detector | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076265 | Portable radiation imaging system, holding device used therein, and portable radiation imaging apparatus - Each of two X-ray sources hangs from a hook movably attached to a horizontal bar of a holding device. The horizontal bar is provided with a position indicating section that indicates positions suitable for each of the X-ray sources, corresponding to an object of interest (the size of X-ray irradiation area). The position indicating section has first to third lamps arranged at the respective suitable positions. Out of the first to third lamps, a holding device controller of an imaging control device turns on lamps corresponding to the object of interest inputted from an input device of a console. The hooks are moved along rails to the positions of the lamps turned on, respectively. Movable joints of support legs are operated to adjust a distance between the X-ray sources and an image receiving surface of a cassette. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076264 | Portable radiation imaging system - An X-ray imaging system includes an X-ray generator, an electronic cassette, a holder arm, a PC, and a control device. The holder arm has an L-shaped arm body and a base column. To one end of the arm body, an X-ray source is attached. The base column is perpendicularly attached to the electronic cassette, and swingably holds the arm body. The X-ray source is shifted among an R irradiation position, an L irradiation position, and a base position by the swing of the arm body, and is fixed at each position. With the shift of the X-ray source between the R and L irradiation positions, a parallax image including a pair of R and L viewpoint images is captured. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076262 | RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE DISPLAYING DEVICE AND METHOD - The stereoscopic effect of auxiliary lines for making a stereoscopic effect easy to figure out is matched with the stereoscopic effect of a subject included in a stereoscopic image when displaying a stereoscopic image using a radiological image. Auxiliary lines are added to two radiological images for displaying a stereoscopic image. The auxiliary lines are formed by arraying a plurality of grids so as to be viewed in the depth direction. The auxiliary lines are generated according to the compression thickness when compressing the subject to radiograph the subject, the radiographing technique, and the compression pressure when compressing the subject to radiograph the subject. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076261 | RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided is a technique of making auxiliary lines easy to view when displaying a stereoscopic image using radiological images. Auxiliary lines are added on two radiological images for displaying a stereoscopic image, respectively. The auxiliary lines are made up of a plurality of grids appearing to be arranged in the depth direction, and, on the auxiliary lines that constitute a grid on a rear side, intersections with the auxiliary lines that constitute a grid on a front side and the near portion of the intersections are removed. In this way, the intersections of the grids can be viewed easily. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120076260 | Image processing apparatus and method, computer executable program, and radiation imaging system - In three dimensional X-ray imaging, a user interface is for search support with plural images, which are obtained by imaging an object upon applying X-rays thereto from an X-ray source. There is a display region for selecting two parallax images of one image pair among the plural images. Right and left buttons are for determining a direction to shift a view center of an image pair by selection from first and second directions in which an irradiation angle changes. A moving area image and line segment are for setting a small search area limited within an initial search area by considering the determined first or second direction, a first image pair specified previously, and a current second image pair in multi-stage binary search. Two parallax images of a third image pair are acquired from the small search area, to raise efficiency in search from the initial search area. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075722 | LENS FOR PROJECTION AND PROJECTION-TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A lens for projection substantially consists of a negative first-lens having a concave surface facing the reduction side, a positive second-lens having a convex surface facing the magnification side, a negative third-lens having a concave surface facing the magnification side, a positive fourth-lens having a convex surface facing the reduction side, and a positive fifth-lens, arranged in this order from the magnification side. Further, the following formulas (A) through (D) are satisfied: | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075706 | Optical film having antistatic layer, antireflection film, polarizing plate and image display device - An optical film having a transparent support having thereon at least a hardcoat layer and an antistatic layer in this order, wherein the hardcoat layer and the antistatic layer are formed by simultaneously coating compositions for forming respective layers, the antistatic layer comprises at least (A) an electrically conductive organic compound and (B) a polyfunctional monomer having three or more polymerizable groups, a content of an inorganic oxide fine particle in the antistatic layer is less than 10 weight % based on an entire solid content of the antistatic layer, and a common logarithmic value (LogSR) of surface resistivity SR (Ω/sq) on the antistatic layer side with respect to the transparent support is 13 or less. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075522 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a display device which has a display unit on a main body, comprising a cover member that can be deformed into a first shape for covering the display unit and a second shape for forming a grip in order to solve the problems in the conventional cameras. The problem is such that the size of the camera becomes large by the size of the grip, which impairs portability of the camera because the conventional camera provides a fixed grip on the camera body on which a display unit with a large screen is mounted. In addition, another conventional camera has a space for accommodating the cover members within the grip, so that the size of the grip becomes accordingly large and thus the camera itself becomes large. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075447 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - A correction image is created from an image captured by a solid-state image sensor and low-frequency components are removed from the correction image to generate a correction parameter for correcting uneven sensitivity, the endoscope system is capable of correcting uneven sensitivity of the image captured by the solid-state image sensor without amplifying noise in the periphery of the image. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075446 | ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RELEASING HEAT GENERATED BY IMAGING ELEMENT OF THE ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - An endoscope apparatus includes an imaging element, a flexible substrate, and a flexible heat release sheet. The imaging element is built in an endoscope front end portion so as to receive incident light from a subject. The imaging element and components of a circuit for driving the imaging element are mounted on the flexible substrate and the flexible substrate is built in the endoscope front end portion. The flexible heat release sheet includes a first region attached to a given region of the imaging element other than a light receiving surface of the imaging element and a second region thermally contacted to a heat release member disposed in the endoscope front end portion. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075445 | IMAGING DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPIC DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM - A mask selector for selecting and setting a mask according to an input instruction and a level selector for selecting a halation reduction level are provided, and a luminance ratio of a first region containing a central area of an acquired image and a second region closer to the periphery thereof is obtained, the mean luminance and the peak luminance of the acquired image are mixed using weighting factors in accordance with the luminance ratio, and a photometric value representing a whole brightness of the acquired image is obtained to adjust the brightness of the acquired image based on the photometric value, the photometric value being obtained according to a peak luminance calculating condition and a weight setting condition preset according to a combination of a selected mask and halation reduction level. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075400 | METHOD OF FORMING IMAGE USING HEAT-SENSITIVE TRANSFER IMAGE-RECEIVING SHEET HAVING A LENTICULAR LENS - A method of forming an image, having the steps of: superposing a heat-sensitive transfer sheet on a heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet; and applying thermal energy, in which the heat-sensitive transfer sheet has a dye transfer barrier layer between a support and a dye layer, the image-receiving sheet has a lenticular lens on a transparent support and at least one receptor layer at the back side of the transparent support, and the image-receiving sheet contains at least one kind of a latex polymer in said at least one receptor layer and has a subbing layer which contains at least one kind of a resin that is identical with at least one kind of a resin constituting the lenticular lens, at the side of the transparent support, opposite to the side on which the lenticular lens is provided. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075393 | INK SET, INK CARTRIDGE, INKJET PRINTER, INKJET RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDED MATTER - An ink set is provided and includes at least a yellow ink composition, a magenta ink composition, and a cyan ink composition, wherein the yellow ink composition contains as a colorant at least one selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by formula (Y-I) and a salt thereof. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075382 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus which includes a line head having a nozzle group in a two-dimensional matrix configuration, or a line head in which a plurality of head modules are joined together in a staggered matrix arrangement. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075381 | INK COMPOSITION FOR INK JET RECORDING AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD USING THE SAME - An ink composition for ink jet recording with excellent ink storage stability, which makes it possible to solve the problems concerning blurring or strike through and perform printing with high density and high image quality, is provided. An ink jet recording method which makes it possible to carry out printing with high density and image quality while causing little strike through, using the ink composition, is also provided. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075293 | ADJUSTMENT METHOD OF STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY, ADJUSTMENT DEVICE USED THEREFORE, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND DISPLAY DEVICE USE THEREFORE - In an adjustment method of a stereoscopic display used for stereoscopic display and an adjustment device used therefore, the burden on an observer can be reduced. An adjustment method of a stereoscopic display having a light output unit for a right eye which outputs a light signal for the right eye and a light output unit for a left eye which outputs a light signal for the left eye includes: performing first measurement for measuring the luminance of the light signal for the right eye; performing second measurement for measuring the luminance of the light signal for the left eye; acquiring first and second representative luminance values corresponding to each other by the first and second measurements, respectively; and adjusting an output of the light output unit such that a difference between the first and second representative luminance values falls within a predetermined range. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120075292 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - It is so arranged that margins will not be produced in an image compositing area. Specifically, a user sets an amount of parallax. A stereoscopic image is displayed in an image compositing area and the stereoscopic image is adjusted to as to take on the set amount of parallax. It is determined whether margins will be produced within the image compositing area owing to the adjustment of amount of parallax. If margins will be produced, the stereoscopic image is enlarged in size to such an extent that margins will not be produced. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120074513 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, SOLID-SATE IMAGING ELEMENT, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT - A photoelectric conversion element includes an insulating film, a first electrode, a light receiving layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode is formed on the insulating film and is made of titanium oxynitride. The light receiving layer is formed on the first electrode and includes an organic material. A composition of the first electrode just before forming the light receiving layer meets (1) a requirement that an amount of oxygen contained in the whole of the first electrode is 75 atm % or more of an amount of titanium, or (2) a requirement that in a range of from the substrate side of the first electrode to 10 nm or a range of from the substrate side of the first electrode to ⅔ of the thickness of the first electrode, an amount of oxygen is 40 atm % or more of an amount of titanium. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120074332 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE DETECTOR - A flat panel detector (FPD) includes an imaging panel having pixels arranged in a matrix, a gate driver for turning thin film transistors (TFTs) of the pixels ON and OFF, a radiation detecting section for detecting the start of x-ray radiation from the x-ray source, and a controller. The controller controls the gate driver to turn the TFTs ON periodically to reset dark charges of the pixels. Before starting a charge accumulating operation for accumulating signal charges for imaging, the controller controls the gate driver to turn the TFTs OFF so that the radiation detecting section may detect the start of x-ray radiation on the basis of charge leaks from the pixels. When the start of x-ray radiation is detected, the controller starts the charge accumulating operation while keeping the TFTs in the OFF condition. Thereafter, the TFTs are turned ON to read out the accumulated signal charges. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120073973 | ANISOTROPICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBER - An anisotropically conductive member includes an insulating base having through micropores and conductive paths formed by filling the through micropores with a conductive material, insulated from one another, and extending through the insulating base in its thickness direction, one end of each of the conductive paths exposed on one side of the insulating base, the other end of each of the conductive paths exposed on the other side thereof. The insulating base is an anodized film obtained from an aluminum substrate and the aluminum substrate contains intermetallic compounds with an average circle equivalent diameter of up to 2 μm at a density of up to 100 pcs/mm | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120073614 | ENDOSCOPE CLEANING SYSTEM AND ENDOSCOPE CLEANING METHOD - An endoscope cleaning system of one aspect of the subject matter includes: a first cleaning device configured to clean an endoscope; a second cleaning device configured to clean the endoscope according to a method different from that of the first cleaning device; and a cleaning evaluation device configured to determine whether or not a cleaning level of the endoscope cleaned by one of the first cleaning device and the second cleaning device satisfies a predetermined criterion, wherein one of the first cleaning device and the second cleaning device cleans the endoscope in accordance with a determination result of the cleaning evaluation device. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120073610 | CLEANING AGENT FOR SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE, CLEANING METHOD USING THE CLEANING AGENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT - A cleaning agent for a semiconductor substrate, which is capable of exerting cleaning power equivalent to that of an SPM cleaning agent, greatly improving damage of a semiconductor substrate by the SPM cleaning agent, and efficiently stripping and removing impurities adhered to the surface of the semiconductor substrate, particularly attached substances such as an ion-implanted resist, a cleaning method using the cleaning agent, and a method for producing a semiconductor element are provided. The cleaning agent for a semiconductor substrate comprises sulfuric acid, hydrogen peroxide and an alkylene carbonate. The method for cleaning a semiconductor substrate comprises cleaning the semiconductor substrate with sulfuric acid, hydrogen peroxide and an alkylene carbonate in combination. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120071762 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus comprises: an ultrasound probe including a transducer array; a plurality of diagnostic apparatus bodies corresponding to a plurality of parts of the transducer array for transmitting ultrasonic waves through corresponding transducers and processing reception signals from the corresponding transducers, respectively; and a synchronizing signal supply unit for supplying a common clock signal and a common trigger signal to the plurality of diagnostic apparatus bodies for causing the plurality of diagnostic apparatus bodies to operate in synchronism. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120071722 | ENDOSCOPE AND FLEXIBLE PORTION THEREOF - An endoscope comprising:
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| 20120070649 | BASE MATERIAL FILM FOR BACK SHEET OF SOLAR CELL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention provides a base material film for a back sheet of a solar cell, the base material film including: a sheet-shaped support containing a first polymer; and an easy-adhesive layer provided on at least one side of the support, the easy-adhesive layer including an inorganic fine particle and a binder including an acrylic resin crosslinked by a compound having an oxazoline group, and a method of manufacturing a base material film for a back sheet of a solar cell, the method including: coating a liquid including a compound having an oxazoline group, an acrylic resin, and an inorganic fine particle on at least one side of a sheet-shaped support containing a first polymer to form a coating film; and heating the coating film such that the acrylic resin is crosslinked by the compound having the oxazoline group. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120070615 | POLYESTER FILM, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, BACK SHEET FOR SOLAR CELLS, AND SOLAR CELL MODULE - Provided is a method for producing a polyester film, including: subjecting a polyester raw material resin, which contains a titanium compound and has an intrinsic viscosity of from 0.71 to 1.00, to melt extrusion using a twin-screw extruder which includes a cylinder; two screws disposed inside the cylinder; and a kneading disk unit disposed in at least a portion of a region extending from a 10%-position to a 65%-position of screw length with respect to an upstream end of the screws in a resin extrusion direction as a starting point, at a maximum shear rate generated inside the twin-screw extruder of from 10 sec | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069960 | Portable radiation imaging system, portable radiation source holder used therein, and set of instruments for radiation imaging - In an X-ray imaging system, an X-ray source has a lightweight and small-sized X-ray tube. The X-ray tube is a fixed anode X-ray tube without having a target rotating mechanism. The X-ray tube uses a cold cathode electron source, which does not need a filament and a heater. An image acquisition control device moves the X-ray source to each of plural positions predetermined on a cross bar of a holder by control of a drive source of a shift mechanism. Whenever the X-ray source reaches each position, the X-ray source emits X-rays to an object, and a cassette detects the X-rays transmitted through the object to take an image. Based on data of taken plural images, tomographic image, which puts emphasis on a region of interest inside the object, is produced. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069957 | RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE DISPLAYING DEVICE AND METHOD - Diagnosis using a tomographic image and a stereoscopic image can be easily performed. A reconstruction unit generates a tomographic image from a plurality of radiological images with different radiographing directions, which is stored in a radiological image storage unit. A display control unit displays a stereoscopic image using a standard radiological image and a reference radiological image, among the plurality of radiological images, on a monitor. In this case, the tomographic image is superimposed on the stereoscopic image. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069951 | TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Provided is a tomographic image displaying method and apparatus capable of displaying a plurality of tomographic images in an easily viewable manner and enabling viewers to immediately understand a region of interest or the like. A predetermined target tomographic image is specified among a plurality of tomographic images, a weighting factor is multiplied to each of the plurality of tomographic images, and the weighted tomographic images are added to thereby generate and display a combined tomographic image. The weighting factor multiplied to the specified target tomographic image is set so as to be larger than the weighting factors multiplied to at least one of the tomographic images other than the target tomographic image. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069456 | SMALL-SIZE WIDE ANGLE LENS AND CAMERA INCLUDING THE LENS - A small-size wide angle lens substantially consists of a first lens group having positive refractive power, a stop, a second lens group having positive refractive power, and a third lens group having negative refractive power, which are arranged in this order from the object side. Each of the first lens group, the second lens group and the third lens group includes a negative lens and a positive lens. Further, at least one of the second lens group and the third lens group includes an aspheric surface. Further, the small-size wide angle lens satisfies predetermined formulas. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069449 | IMAGING LENS, IMAGING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS - When an optical image is formed through an imaging lens on an imaging surface that is convex toward a light incident side, the imaging lens is constructed in such a manner that a defocus MTF peak position at an arbitrary image height in a range of from 70% to 100% of a maximum image height of the optical image is located further in a light-traveling direction than a same kind of defocus MTF peak position on an optical axis of the imaging lens. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069237 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND RESTORATION GAIN DATA GENERATION METHOD - An image pickup apparatus according to one aspect of the invention includes: an imaging lens configured to perform a phase modulation function to extend a depth of field; a color image pickup element configured to convert an optical image which passes through the imaging lens and is formed on the image pickup element into an electric signal, the image pickup element having primary filters of three primary colors arranged for respective pixels in a predetermined pattern; and a restoration processing device configured to perform filtering processing using a single restoration filter on color signals corresponding to the primary filters of the three primary colors outputted from the color image pickup element, the restoration filter being an inverse function of a point spread function obtained when the phase modulation is performed by the imaging lens. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069219 | IMAGE CAPTURING MODULE AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image capturing module comprising a first optical system that focuses light in a first wavelength region; a second optical system that focuses light in a second wavelength region and has a different focal position than the first optical system; a first light receiving section that includes a plurality of light receiving elements for receiving light from a subject through the first optical system; a second light receiving section that includes a plurality of light receiving elements for receiving light from the subject through the second optical system; and an image processing section that generates a composite image to have, as a brightness component over the first and second wavelength regions, an edge component extracted from a focused image, which is whichever of a first image captured by the first light receiving section and a second image captured by the second light receiving section the subject is more focused in. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069149 | PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL INFORMATION MEASURING DEVICE - To make it easy to recognize that pixel resolving power is changed during photography operation. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069084 | INK COMPOSITION, INK SET AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An ink composition includes a polymerization initiator, water, and a modified polyallylamine or modified polyvinylamine having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond in a side chain thereof. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069083 | INK COMPOSITION, INK SET AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An ink composition includes a compound having a structure represented by the following Formula (I), a polymerization initiator and water; | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069082 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet recording method is provided in which image formation is carried out by employing an ink set, the inks of each color including a polymerizable compound and a polymerization initiator, and discharge of the inks being repeated 2 to 16 times for the same area. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120069001 | ELECTRONIC ALBUM GENERATING APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PASTING APPARATUS, AND METHODS AND PROGRAMS FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - Viewing of stereoscopic images is facilitated for every page of an electronic album. A page constituting an electronic album is selected. A stereoscopic image is then selected and the selected stereoscopic image is pasted in an image compositing area. An amount of parallax has been defined for the image compositing area, and the amount of parallax of the image compositing area in which the stereoscopic image has been pasted is read. The amount of parallax of the stereoscopic image is changed to that of the image compositing area. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120068292 | POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION, AND PHOTOSENSITIVE LAYER, PERMANENT PATTERN, WAFER-LEVEL LENS, SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND PATTERN FORMING METHOD EACH USING THE COMPOSITION - A polymerizable composition contains (A) a polymerization initiator that is an acetophenone-based compound or an acylphosphine oxide-based compound, (B) a polymerizable compound, (C) at least either a tungsten compound or a metal boride, and (D) an alkali-soluble binder. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120067425 | ALUMINUM BASE MATERIAL, METAL SUBSTRATE HAVING INSULATING LAYER EMPLOYING THE ALUMINUM BASE MATERIAL, SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT, AND SOLAR BATTERY - A metal substrate with an insulating layer, which is capable of being produced by a simple process, exhibits heat resistance during semiconductor processing, is superior in voltage resistance, and has small leakage current, and an Al base material that realizes the metal substrate are provided. The metal substrate with an insulating layer is formed by administering anodic oxidation on at least one surface of the Al base material. The Al base material includes only precipitous particles of a substance which is anodized by anodic oxidation as precipitous particles within an Al matrix. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120067236 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR LASER ENGRAVING, RELIEF PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND RELIEF PRINTING PLATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME - A resin composition is provided that includes (Component A) a filler having an ethylenically unsaturated group, (Component B) a polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated group, and (Component C) a polymerization initiator. There are also provided a relief printing plate precursor, a process for producing a relief printing plate precursor that includes a layer formation step of forming a relief-forming layer and a crosslinking step of thermally crosslinking the relief-forming layer, and a process for making a relief printing plate that includes an engraving step of laser-engraving the crosslinked relief-forming layer so as to form a relief layer. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120065530 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - The systolic timings of myocardia at various positions of a heart are analyzed and evaluated. An image processing apparatus | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120063764 | LENS DEVICE - A camera-attached lens device includes a lens barrel, a mount ring, pins, through holes, a positioning ring, and a fixing member. The lens barrel holds a lens system. The mount ring, attached to the lens barrel, has a tubular fitted portion coupling with the camera and a flange portion around the fitted portion. The pins are on the lens barrel and position a central axis of the mount ring with respect to an optical axis. The through holes are on the flange portion. The positioning ring outer diameter is smaller than a hole diameter of the through holes and has an opening where the pins are fitted. The fixing member fixes the positioning ring inside the through holes. The pins are restricted by the opening of the positioning ring fixed by the fixing member when the mount ring is positioned, positioning the lens barrel with respect to the mount ring. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120063011 | RETROFOCUS-TYPE WIDE ANGLE LENS AND CAMERA INCLUDING THE LENS - A retrofocus-type wide angle lens includes a first lens group having negative refractive power as a whole, a second lens group having positive refractive power as a whole, a stop, and a third lens group having positive refractive power as a whole, which are arranged in this order from the object side of the retrofocus-type wide angle lens. Further, the first lens group includes two negative meniscus lenses, each having a convex surface facing the object side. Further, each of the second lens group and the third lens group includes a three-element cemented lens. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120059239 | BODY MOTION DETECTION DEVICE AND METHOD, AS WELL AS RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image obtaining unit obtains a plurality of radiographic images, which at least partially overlap with one another, taken by carrying out a plurality of imaging operations with respect to an identical subject. An imaging information obtaining unit obtains imaging information representing imaging conditions and an imaged subject during the imaging operations. A body motion index value obtaining unit obtains a body motion index value, which indicates a body motion of the subject during imaging of the radiographic images, based on the imaging information. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059222 | IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CLEANING AN ILLUMINATION WINDOW OF THE IMAGING DEVICE - In an imaging device for capturing an image by applying illuminating light emitted from a light source to a part to be observed through a light exit window and receiving light coming from the part to be observed when the illuminating light is applied, a light exit window cleaning unit discharges a liquid toward the light exit window to clean the light exit window in response to an instruction to start application of the illuminating light. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120058465 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ASSAY - A device for assay can evenly develop solution, and performs highly accurate and sensitive measurement. A first device part ( | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120058436 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD, RESIST COMPOSITION FOR MULTIPLE DEVELOPMENT USED IN THE PATTERN FORMING METHOD, DEVELOPER FOR NEGATIVE DEVELOPMENT USED IN THE PATTERN FORMING METHOD, AND RINSING SOLUTION FOR NEGATIVE DEVELOPMENT USED IN THE PATTERN FORMING METHOD - A pattern forming method, including: (A) coating a substrate with a positive resist composition of which solubility in a positive developer increases and solubility in a negative developer decreases upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation, so as to form a resist film; (B) exposing the resist film; and (D) developing the resist film with a negative developer; a positive resist composition for multiple development used in the method; a developer for use in the method; and a rinsing solution for negative development used in the method. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120058431 | POSITIVE PHOTOSENSITIVE COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF FORMING PATTERN USING THE SAME - A positive photosensitive composition includes: a resin (A) whose dissolution rate in an alkaline developing solution increases by the action of an acid, the resin (A) containing an acid decomposable repeating unit represented by a general formula (I) and an acid nondecomposable repeating unit represented by a general formula (II); and a compound (B) capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with one of active rays and radiations: | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120058427 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD, CHEMICAL AMPLIFICATION RESIST COMPOSITION AND RESIST FILM - A pattern forming method, including: (i) forming a film from a chemical amplification resist composition; (ii) exposing the film, so as to form an exposed film; and (iii) developing the exposed film by using a developer containing an organic solvent, wherein the chemical amplification resist composition contains: (A) a resin capable of decreasing a solubility of the resin (A) in the developer containing an organic solvent by an action of an acid; (B) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation; and (C) a basic, compound or ammonium salt compound whose basicity decreases upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation, and a resist composition used for the pattern forming method and a resist film formed from the resist composition are provided. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057249 | LENS FOR PROJECTION AND PROJECTION-TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A negative first lens having a concave surface facing the reduction side of a lens for projection, a positive second lens having a convex surface facing the magnification side of the lens for projection, a negative third lens having a concave surface facing the magnification side, a positive fourth lens having a convex surface facing the reduction side, a positive fifth lens, and a positive sixth lens are arranged in this order from the magnification side, and the reduction side of the optical system is telecentric. Further, the following formula (A) is satisfied: | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057239 | LIGHT SCATTERING SHEET AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A process for producing a light scattering sheet includes: a coating step of coating a transparent support with a coating solution prepared by dissolving a resin material including at least two kinds selected from polymers and monomers phase-separable with each other in a solvent to form a coating layer; and a drying step of drying the coating layer to form a phase separated concavity and convexity structure on the coating layer by spinodal decomposition, wherein, in the drying step, high speed drying is carried out at a drying speed of 3.0 g/m | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057071 | IMAGING DEVICE AND MOBILE INFORMATION TERMINAL - An imaging device with a short length and small aberration is provided. A total length D of an image-forming optical system is less than 3.6 mm. A maximum incidence angle of a principle ray on an image forming plane exceeds 33°. Conditions f/fL<−1.50 or f/fL<−0.9, and D/f<1.10 are satisfied where f denotes a focal length of the entire image-forming optical system and fL denotes a focal length of a last lens. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120056930 | ACTIVE ENERGY RAY-CURABLE INK COMPOSITION, INKJET RECORDING METHOD, AND INKJET PRINTED ARTICLE - An active energy ray-curable ink composition is disclosed which includes a colorant, a dispersant, a polymerizable compound and water. The dispersant includes a hydrophobic repeating unit including a residue obtained by removing one hydrogen atom from a compound selected from the group consisting of a benzene ring-containing compound, an aromatic hydrocarbon ring-condensed polycyclic compound, a heteromonocyclic compound and a hetero ring-condensed heteropolycyclic compound; a hydrophilic repeating unit including an ionic group; and a hydrophilic repeating unit including a nonionic group. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120056882 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - Margins are prevented from being produced when the amount of parallax of a stereoscopic image has been enlarged. A parallax adjustment command is applied if a stereoscopic image is displayed in an image compositing area that has been defined on a page constituting an electronic album. The amount of parallax is enlarged in response to application of a command to enlarge the amount of parallax. If enlarging the amount of parallax will cause margins to be produced when the stereoscopic image is displayed in the image compositing area on the page, then this page is replaced by a page on which an image compositing area that will not produce margins has been formed. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120056881 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - A parallax adjusting command is applied when a stereoscopic image is displayed in an image compositing area defined on a page constituting an electronic album. The amount of parallax is enlarged in response to application of a command for enlarging the amount of parallax. If enlarging the amount of parallax results in margins being produced when the stereoscopic image is displayed in the image compositing area, the enlargement of the amount of parallax is not reflected in the display of the stereoscopic image. Thus, margins are prevented from being produced in the image compositing area. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120055799 | ANISOTROPICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - An anisotropically conductive member has an insulating base material, and conductive paths composed of a conductive material which pass in a mutually insulated state through the insulating base material in a thickness direction thereof and which are provided in such a way that a first end of each conductive path is exposed on a first side of the insulating base material and a second end of each conductive path is exposed on a second side of the insulating base material. The conductive paths have a density of at least 2 million paths/mm | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120055360 | RELIEF PRINTING PLATE, PLATE-MAKING METHOD FOR THE RELIEF PRINTING PLATE AND PLATE-MAKING APPARATUS FOR THE RELIEF PRINTING PLATE - In a relief printing plate according to an aspect of the present invention, the relief can be formed to have resistance to pressure applied to the apex thereof thanks to the depth (d) and the ridge tilt angle (x). In particular, the resistance to pressure against a relief serving as a highlight halftone dot can be improved to prevent the relief from falling over by the pressure applied to the apex of the relief. Thereby, the relief serving as a highlight halftone dot can be made not to be dipped in a cell of the ink roller (e.g., anilox roller). | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120047234 | WEB PAGE BROWSING SYSTEM AND RELAY SERVER - This invention allows a mobile terminal to browse a Web page without destroying the design of the Web page and, in particular, browse and operate even a Web page incorporating a piece of rich content, even if the mobile terminal does not have the function of browsing a Web page for PCs. A relay server converts a Web page into image data intended to be browsed (an image) and provides the image data to a mobile terminal. The relay server extracts a rich content area and detects a change in an image in the rich content area, if a Web page incorporates a piece of rich content. When a change in the image is detected, the relay server converts the current Web page into image data intended to be browsed and transmits the image data to a mobile terminal to update the screen. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120046420 | POLYMER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYMER, RESIN COMPOSITION FOR OPTICAL MATERIAL, SHAPED ARTICLE, OPTICAL MATERIAL, AND LENS - A polymer containing a recurring unit having an aliphatic polycyclic structure, wherein at least two atoms constituting the ring skeleton of the aliphatic polycyclic structure constitute the main chain of the polymer, and the recurring unit has an aliphatic ring containing a sulfonyl group as the constitutive group of the ring skeleton, has high refractivity, high Abbe's number, high-level heat resistance, high-level light transmittance and low water absorption. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120045616 | POSITIVE PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR FORMING CURED FILM, CURED FILM, ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A positive photosensitive resin composition including: a resin comprising a structural unit having an acid dissociative group and a structural unit having a functional group capable of forming a covalent bond by reacting with a carboxyl group or a phenolic hydroxyl group; and an acid generator represented by the following formula (I): | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120045110 | METHOD OF ENCODING A RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE SIGNAL, METHOD OF DECODING A RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE SIGNAL, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE DETECTION DEVICE AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE - From a radiation detecting unit for detecting a radiographic image of a subject by receiving radiation transmitted through the subject, a radiographic image signal representing the radiographic image is read out, and information about an imaging operation carried out to obtain the radiographic image of the subject is obtained. The radiographic image signal is encoded with using key information based on the obtained information about the imaging operation to generate an encoded radiographic image signal, and the encoded radiographic image signal is outputted as a radio communication signal. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120044585 | LENS FOR PROJECTION AND PROJECTION-TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - In constructing a lens for projection substantially consisting of seven lenses, and the reduction side of which is telecentric, a first-lens-group is composed of two lenses including at least one negative lens. A second-lens-group is composed of a positive second-group first-lens having a convex surface facing the magnification side, a negative second-group second-lens having a concave surface facing the magnification side, a positive second-group third-lens having a convex surface facing the reduction side, a positive second-group fourth-lens, and a positive second-group fifth-lens in this order from the magnification side. The formulas (A) and (B) are satisfied: | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120044393 | IMAGE CAPTURING MODULE AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A subject image with little blur is provided even when the subject exists in a wide range of distance. An image capturing module includes: a plurality of image capturing systems, each including an optical system and capturing a an image of a subject by light in a wavelength region different from each other to generate a wavelength component signal representing an image of light in the corresponding wavelength region; and an image generating section that combines the wavelength component signals generated by the plurality of image capturing systems thereby generating an image signal representing an image of the subject, where an image capturing system, from among the plurality of image capturing systems, which generates a wavelength component signal having a greater contribution to brightness in the image of the subject includes an optical system having a deeper focal depth. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120043532 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - High light transmission efficiency is achieved in an electroluminescence device without lowering the durability of the device. The electroluminescence device includes: electrodes; a plurality of layers that are deposited one on another between the electrodes; and a light emitting region between the plurality of layers. The light emitting region emits light by application of an electric field between the electrodes. At least one microparticle that induces plasmon resonance on the surface thereof by the light emitted from the light emitting region is arranged in the vicinity of the light emitting region or in the light emitting region. The microparticle is a core-shell-type microparticle including at least one metal microparticle core and an insulation shell that covers the at least one metal microparticle core. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120039066 | RADIATION REFLECTION PLATE FOR LED - A radiation reflection plate for use in LEDs is a reflection plate including an aluminum alloy layer with a depth of at least 10 μm and an anodized film formed at a surface thereof. Pore portions of the anodized film have at least two layers of different refractive indices in a depth direction, and light reflection is enhanced in the anodized film. The radiation reflection plate has high heat dissipation properties and is capable of increasing the reflectance of light at desired specific wavelengths. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120038993 | LENS BARREL HAVING AN ECCENTRICITY ADJUSTING MECHANISM - A lens barrel having an eccentricity adjusting mechanism, the lens barrel includes a first lens frame, a second lens frame, an engaging part, a plate spring, a circumferential direction groove, a guiding groove, a screw hole, a set screw, a tool insertion hole. The first lens frame is disposed in an fixed barrel of the lens barrel, integrally holds a plurality of lenses, and has openings on front and rear end of the first lens frame in an optical axis direction. The second lens frame that holds a part of the plurality of lenses to be subjected to eccentricity adjustment and is inserted from one of the openings to be disposed and held in the first lens frame. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120038992 | LENS BARREL HAVING AN ECCENTRICITY ADJUSTING MECHANISM - According to an aspect of the invention, a lens barrel having an eccentricity adjusting mechanism includes a lens frame, a pressing ring, an engaging part, a tool insertion hole, an engaging face, a non-engaging face. The lens frame holds a lens for an optical system of the lens barrel. The pressing ring is screw-connected to a fixed barrel of the lens barrel. A part of the lens frame is disposed between the pressing ring and the fixed barrel so that the lens frame is supported to be rotatable around the optical axis. The engaging part is formed on an outer circumferential face of the lens frame, protrudes from the outer circumferential face of the lens frame, the engaging part including a plurality of engaging parts formed in the circumferential direction of the outer circumferential face of the lens frame with predetermined intervals. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120038991 | FINDER APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A finder apparatus superimposes, on an image formed by an observation optical system of a reverse-Galilean finder including an objective lens group and an eyepiece lens group, display on a display member arranged outside an optical path of the observation optical system by using an optical path combination member arranged between the objective lens group and the eyepiece lens group, thereby making a user observe the image on which the display is superimposed. The finder apparatus includes a target lens group that guides light from the display member, and which is provided in an optical path from the display member to the eyepiece lens group. Further, the focal length of the eyepiece lens group, and a combined focal length from the target lens group through the eyepiece lens group satisfy predetermined formulas. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120038858 | LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND LIQUID-CRYSTAL CELL - To provide a liquid crystal display device in which the transmitted light is inhibited not only in the front direction but also in oblique directions in the black state. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120038722 | SEASONING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Sheets of paper discharged from an apparatus main body are stacked in a stack unit and humidified air is blown to the stacked sheets of paper by a spray device (humidifying seasoning). The humidified air blown by the spray device is blown between the sheets of paper to supply moisture to a non-image-formed portion. After blowing the humidified air for 5 minutes, nozzles of a water pipe is closed under the control of a controller and non-humidified air of the atmosphere is blown to the sheets of paper for 10 minutes (blowing seasoning). Accordingly, since the amount of moisture in the non-image-formed portion is returned to the amount of moisture originally contained in the sheets of paper, the difference in the amounts of moisture between an image-formed portion and a non-image-formed portion is reduced, thereby suppressing the cockling generated in the sheets of paper. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120037860 | DYE-CONTAINING NEGATIVE CURABLE COMPOSITION, COLOR FILTER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides a dye-containing negative curable composition comprising at least two dyes (A), an oxime photopolymerization initiator (B) and a radical polymerizable monomer (C); or a dye-containing negative curable composition comprising at east two organic-solvent soluble dyes (A), an oxime photopolymerization initiator (B), a radical polymerizable monomer (C) and an organic solvent (D), wherein the moisture content of the composition is less than 1% by mass relative to the total amount of the composition. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120035477 | ULTRASOUND IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS - An ultrasound image having a good image quality is generated in the neighborhood of a puncture needle without lowering the image quality of the whole ultrasound image. A first echo signal received by transmitting first ultrasonic waves focused on an imaging target position and a second echo signal received by transmitting second ultrasonic waves having the depth of the focal point positioned at a uniform position are obtained, the weights of the first echo signal and the second echo signal are determined according to the focal point positions of the respective ultrasonic waves, and weighted addition is performed to generate a corrected image. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120035419 | ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An electronic endoscope system is composed of an electronic endoscope, a light source apparatus, and a temperature converter. The electronic endoscope has a CMOS sensor in a distal portion of an insert section to be inserted into a patient's body cavity. Illumination light from the light source apparatus is applied to the body cavity through the distal portion. The temperature converter obtains an average pixel value of an optical black (OB) region out of an imaging signal from the CMOS sensor, and converts the average OB pixel value into a temperature of the CMOS sensor on a frame-by-frame basis with the use of data in a temperature conversion table. The table represents a relationship between the average OB pixel value and the temperature of the CMOS sensor. Light quantity of the illumination light is adjusted in accordance with the temperature of the CMOS sensor to prevent deterioration of image quality. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034564 | POSITIVE RESIST COMPOSITION AND PATTERN FORMING METHOD - A positive photosensitive composition includes:
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| 20120034559 | ACTINIC-RAY- OR RADIATION-SENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, RESIST FILM THEREFROM AND METHOD OF FORMING PATTERN THEREWITH - Provided is an actinic-ray- or radiation-sensitive resin composition, includes a resin (P) containing a repeating unit (A) that when exposed to actinic rays or radiation, is decomposed to thereby generate an acid and a repeating unit (B) with a structure that when acted on by an acid, is decomposed to thereby increase its solubility in an alkali developer, and a compound (U) structured so that when the composition is formed into a film, the compound is unevenly distributed in a surface of the film. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120034322 | INTESTINAL BACTERIAL FLORA DISTRIBUTION RATIO REGULATOR - A food or pharmaceutical capable of regulating an intestinal bacterial flora distribution ratio, which is safe and has few side effects, is provided. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120033866 | DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING APPARATUS, DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING A DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN - Structures in the vicinity of a target point (point of interest) within a diagnostic image are enabled to be observed in detail from multiple directions. Overview images ( | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032980 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, PORTABLE DEVICE WITH PHOTOGRAPHY FUNCTION, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image display device including a display that displays an image according to a piece of photography image data on a display screen based on plural pieces of photography image data stored in a storage unit, so as to display another image that includes photography attitude angle information that represents an attitude angle with an angle altered according to the attitude angle alteration amount with respect to an attitude angle which is represented by the photography attitude angle information of the image which is displayed. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032960 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: an image obtaining section obtaining an input image; a first image processing section generating a predetermined quality image resulting from rendering the input image in high image quality using a predetermined image processing parameter; a display section displaying the predetermined quality image; a characteristic region identifying section identifying a plurality of characteristic regions in the input image; a parameter determining section determining, respectively for the plurality of characteristic regions, image processing parameters for rendering images of the plurality of characteristic regions, in higher image quality; a second image processing section generating a plurality of high quality characteristic-region images respectively of the plurality of characteristic regions, using the image processing parameters determined by the parameter determining section; and a display control section replacing the plurality of characteristic regions in the predetermined quality image under display, with the plurality of high quality characteristic-region images. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031460 | SOLAR BATTERY AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - A solar battery including a transparent conductive film; and a solar battery element, wherein the transparent conductive film is bonded to a surface of the solar battery element, and the transparent conductive film is electrically connected to the solar battery element. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120030560 | WEBSITE BROWSING SYSTEM, SERVER, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND WEBSITE BROWSE ASSISTING METHOD - A website browse assisting method according to an aspect of the presently disclosed subject matter includes the steps of: receiving a request for desired page content from a client terminal; acquiring the requested page content; converting the acquired page content into an image; extracting UI information from the acquired page content; determining whether or not the extracted UI information is needed for the client terminal for each item of the UI information; generating UI metadata on the UI information determined to be needed for the client terminal; and transmitting the converted image and the generated UI metadata to the client terminal. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120029344 | RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE RADIOGRAPHIING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Provided is a technique capable of reducing the burden on an examinee and improving imaging efficiency. A radiographic method includes: radiating radiation to a subject in different radiographing directions by moving a radiation source; capturing radiological images in the different radiographing directions using the emission of radiation; and acquiring an image using a modality that acquires an image related to anatomical information of the subject which is different from the radiological images during the movement of the radiation source from a predetermined radiographing direction to the next radiographing direction. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120028467 | POLISHING FLUID AND POLISHING METHOD - Provided is a polishing fluid that has a fast polishing rate, and can selectively suppress polishing of layers including polysilicon or modified polysilicon during the chemical mechanical polishing in the manufacture of semiconductor integrated circuits, and a polishing method using the same. A polishing fluid used for the chemical mechanical polishing in which each of the components represented by the following (1) and (2) is included, the pH is 1.5 to 5.0, and a polishing workpiece can be polished in a range of a ratio represented by RR (other)/RR (p-Si) when the polishing rate of the first layer is RR (p-Si), and the polishing rate of the second layer is RR (other) of 1.5 to 200.
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| 20120028196 | METHOD OF FORMING PATTERN AND ORGANIC PROCESSING LIQUID FOR USE IN THE METHOD - An embodiment of the method of forming a pattern, comprises (a) forming a chemically amplified resist composition into a film, (b) exposing the film to light, and (c) processing the exposed film with an organic processing liquid, wherein the processing liquid contains an organic solvent whose normal boiling point is 175° C. or higher, the organic solvent being contained in the processing liquid in a content of less than 30 mass %. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120028002 | ACTINIC RAY CURABLE INKJET INK COMPOSITION, PRINTED ARTICLE, SHAPED PRINTED PRODUCT, AND PRINTED ARTICLE FORMING METHOD - The present invention provides an actinic ray curable ink composition for inkjet recording, which has a high sensitivity for inhibiting a blocking phenomenon and capability for forming an image, obtained by curing, which exhibits excellent shaping suitability and punching suitability, and which includes: a colorant; a polymerization initiator; a polymerizable monomer; and organic fine particles, the polymerizable monomer containing a monofunctional monomer in an amount of 90% by mass or more with respect to a total mass of the polymerizable monomer, and organic fine particles that are crosslinked. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027950 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD - To provide a pattern forming method, which contains: providing an active species-supplying source to a pattern formable body; and applying excitation light to the active species-supplying source to form an oxide film on a surface of the pattern formable body. | 02-02-2012 |
