NIKON CORPORATION Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160142656 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image pickup apparatus is characterized in that it includes an imaging element having imaging pixels and focus detecting pixels, a determining unit determining an amount of noise superimposed on an image obtained by driving the imaging element, and a pixel interpolation unit executing the interpolation processing from among a plurality of interpolation processing with different processing contents in accordance with a determination result of the amount of noise determined by the determining unit, with respect to the image, to generate interpolation pixel values with respect to the focus detecting pixels. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142645 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - To generate multiple types of images of the same subject. An electronic apparatus includes a drive control unit that controls the drive of an image sensor, a division unit that divides an image capture region of the image sensor into at least first and second regions, and an image generation unit that generates a first image by capturing an image of the same subject in the first region and generates a second image by capturing an image of the same subject in the second region. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140710 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus, a method, and a program for allowing cells to be quantitatively observed. A computer obtains a cell membrane image obtained by performing fluorescent observation on a cell membrane of a cell serving as a sample and a tricellular tight junction (tTJ) image obtained by performing fluorescent observation on a protein localized in a tTJ of the cell. The computer derives the size of area of a region of the cell by identifying the region of each cell from the cell membrane image, derives the size of area of the region of the protein localized in the cell from the tTJ image, and dividing the obtained size of area of the region of the protein by the size of area of the region of the cell, thus calculating an index of adhesion strength of the cells. The invention can be applied to an observation system. | 05-19-2016 |
20160139039 | IMAGING SYSTEM AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging system includes an infrared camera | 05-19-2016 |
20160131981 | SUBSTRATE HOLDING APPARATUS, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE FABRICATING METHOD - An exposure apparatus exposes a substrate to light passing through liquid, and includes a stage that holds the substrate. The stage includes a substrate holder including a support member that supports a rear surface of the substrate and a first circumferential wall surrounding the support member. A second circumferential wall surrounds the substrate holder and forms a first groove between the second circumferential wall and the substrate holder, and a second groove on an outer side thereof. A plate member surrounds the substrate on the support member, and a recovery passage recovers liquid flowing from a liquid supply system to a gap between the plate member and the substrate. The second circumferential wall is under the gap so that part of an upper surface of the second circumferential wall faces the substrate rear surface and another part of the upper surface faces a rear surface of the plate member. | 05-12-2016 |
20160131885 | STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPE DEVICE - A structured illumination device includes: a diffraction unit that diffracts light beams of a plurality of wavelengths that are emitted simultaneously or sequentially by a light source into a plurality of diffracted beams; and an optical system that forms interference fringes on a surface of a sample using the plurality of diffracted beams diffracted by the diffraction unit, the optical system including a first optical system and a second optical system that focuses the plurality of diffracted beams at positions on or near a pupil plane of the first optical system, and a magnification characteristic dY(λ) of the second optical system satisfying the condition of (fo·nw−afλ/P)≦dY(λ)≦(fo·NA−afλ/P), where a=1 (for M=1, 2) or a=2 (for M=3). | 05-12-2016 |
20160131670 | INCUBATOR, SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An input section of an incubator accepts, from a user, a first input selecting a specified incubation container which registers an observing schedule, and a second input specifying an imaging condition of the specified incubation container in an observing sequence. A calculating section calculates, according to the above-mentioned imaging condition, an observing duration of the specified incubation container from a first data relating to a carrying period of an incubation container and a second data with regard to an imaging duration. A schedule management section extracts, based on a schedule data, a registrable time zone in which an observing sequence of the specified incubation container can be executed without overlapping with previously registered observing schedules, and outputs to display the registrable time zone for presentation to the user. | 05-12-2016 |
20160124320 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, LIQUID HOLDING METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An exposure apparatus includes a first member disposed at least in a part of a periphery of an optical path of the exposure light, and has a first face that faces an upper face of the object through a first gap and holds the liquid between the upper face of the object and the first face, a second member disposed at an outer side of the first face with respect to the optical path and has a second face facing the upper face of the object through a second gap, a first supply port disposed at an outer side of the second face and supplies a fluid, and a first suction port disposed between the first face and the second face, and suctions at least part of gas in an outer space of the second member via a gap between the second face and the upper face of the object. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124317 | Exposure condition determination method, exposure method, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method involving detection of the situation of a liquid immersion region - A method, for determining an exposure condition for exposing a substrate held on a holder by irradiating the substrate with exposure light via an immersion liquid, includes: moving an object held on the holder relative to a liquid immersion area formed under a projection system under a movement condition and an immersion condition; obtaining information on a leakage of the immersion liquid which may be caused when moving the object held on the holder under the movement condition; and determining the exposure condition for exposing the substrate based on the obtained information. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124179 | LENS BARREL AND OPTICAL APPARATUS - A lens barrel, in one configuration, includes: a first barrel in which a cam groove having a shape curved with respect to a predetermined axis direction is formed to pierce through the first barrel; a second barrel capable of rotating around the predetermined axis along an outer circumferential surface of the first barrel, a straight groove extending in the predetermined axis direction being formed in the second barrel; a moving member that has a cam pin moving along the cam groove and the straight groove and moves in the predetermined axis direction while holding a lens inside the first barrel as the second barrel rotates with respect to the first barrel; and a damping mechanism that applies damping force depending on an angle of the cam groove to the predetermined axis direction to the second barrel. | 05-05-2016 |
20160119608 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus including an image generating section that generates first parallax image data based on the output of the first pixel and second parallax image data based on the output of the second pixel. When the imaging element captures an image of an object point located in an unfocused region on the optical axis, a pixel value of a center pixel corresponding to the optical axis in the first parallax image data is greater than or equal to 50% of a pixel value of a peak pixel in the first parallax image data, and a pixel value of a center pixel corresponding to the optical axis in the second parallax image data is greater than or equal to 50% of a pixel value of a peak pixel in the second parallax image data. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119568 | BACKSIDE ILLUMINATION IMAGE SENSOR, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF AND IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE - An image sensor includes a first photoelectric conversion unit that converts light incident through a first opening to an electric charge, a second photoelectric conversion unit that converts light incident through a second opening which is smaller than the first opening to an electric charge, and a signal output wiring that outputs a first signal generated by the electric charge converted by the first photoelectric conversion unit and a second signal generated by the electric charge converted by the second photoelectric conversion unit. The second photoelectric conversion unit is disposed between the second opening and the signal output wiring. | 04-28-2016 |
20160116727 | MICROSCOPE APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MICROSCOPE APPARATUS CONTROL PROGRAM - A microscope apparatus includes a monitoring optical system, an imaging unit capturing an image of an observation target through the monitoring optical system to generate a plurality of images, a correction unit disposed in the optical monitoring system and correcting various aberrations which occur due to an observation condition, and a decision unit deciding a correction amount of the correction unit based on the plurality of images generated by the imaging unit, whereby an image deterioration ascribable to the aberration occurring due to the observation condition in the microscope apparatus is appropriately and easily corrected according to a use condition of the microscope apparatus. | 04-28-2016 |
20160112644 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL PROGRAM - To make a difference between respective accumulation conditions of first and second regions of a live view image and then to check the live view image for changes in an image corresponding to the changes in the accumulation conditions of the respective regions. An electronic apparatus includes an image-capture unit and a system control unit. The image-capture unit includes an image sensor and captures an image of first and second regions. The system control unit causes a display unit to display a live view image corresponding to the image of the first and second regions captured by the image-capture unit. The system control unit also makes a difference between respective accumulation conditions of the first and second regions of the live view image. | 04-21-2016 |
20160111318 | SUBSTRATE HOLDING METHOD, SUBSTRATE HOLDING APPARATUS, EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND EXPOSURE METHOD - A wafer holding apparatus for holding a wafer including a wafer holder on which the wafer is placed; and a lift pin that is configured to be lifted up and down with respect to the wafer holder in a direction along a normal line of a placement surface of the wafer, the lift pin includes a tip part, the tip part includes: a bottom part that forms a suction region for sucking a rear surface of the wafer; and a convex part that supports the rear surface of the wafer in the suction region. When a substrate is placed on a target position, it is possible to prevent a local deterioration of flatness of the substrate even if the substrate is large. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110157 | OUTPUTTING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display element is turned off by stopping power supply when an image is displayed on a display section. When an image is displayed on the display section, the user observes the image with a head mount display mounted on the user. Because the display element cannot be visually recognized, problems do not occur even when the display element is turned off. Furthermore, because the display element is not required to be supplied with power supply, the service life of a battery is increased. | 04-21-2016 |
20160109815 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, MOVABLE BODY APPARATUS, FLAT-PANEL DISPLAY MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - In a substrate stage, when a Y coarse movement stage moves in the Y-axis direction, an X coarse movement stage, a weight cancellation device, and an X guide move integrally in the Y-axis direction with the Y coarse movement stage, and when the X coarse movement stage moves in the X-axis direction on the Y coarse movement stage, the weight cancellation device move on the X guide in the X-axis direction integrally with the X coarse movement stage. Because the X guide is provided extending in the X-axis direction while covering the movement range of the weight cancellation device in the X-axis direction, the weight cancellation device is constantly supported by the X guide, regardless of its position. Accordingly, a substrate can be guided along the XY plane with good accuracy. | 04-21-2016 |
20160103397 | Exposure Apparatus with Component from which Liquid is Protected and/or Removed and Device Fabricating Method - An exposure apparatus exposes a substrate by filling a liquid between a projection optical system and the substrate, and projecting the image of a pattern onto the substrate through the projection optical system and the liquid, and includes a liquid removing mechanism that intermittently blows a gas against a reference member, movable mirror, and the like, to which the liquid is adhered in order to remove that liquid. | 04-14-2016 |
20160103072 | CELL OBSERVATION METHOD, CELL OBSERVATION APPARATUS, READABLE MEDIA, METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELL SHEET AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING CELL SHEET - A cell observation method includes a detection step of detecting radiation light that is radiated from an observation target when the observation target is irradiated with irradiation light; and a determination step of determining whether a cell included in the observation target is alive or dead based on the radiation light. Another cell observation method may include detecting radiation light that is radiated from an observation target when the observation target is irradiated with irradiation light; and detecting the number of live cells included in the observation target based on the radiation light. Another cell observation method may include acquiring a spectrum of irradiation light that irradiates an observation target when the observation target is irradiated with the irradiation light; and detecting a state of at least one of lipid and protein included in the observation target based on the spectrum. | 04-14-2016 |
20160097980 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An exposure apparatus is equipped with an encoder system which measures positional information of a wafer stage by irradiating a measurement beam using four heads installed on the wafer stage on a scale plate which covers the movement range of the wafer stage except for the area right under a projection optical system. Placement distances of the heads here are each set to be larger than width of the opening of the scale plates, respectively. This allows the positional information of the wafer stage to be measured, by switching and using the three heads facing the scale plate out of the four heads according to the position of the wafer stage. | 04-07-2016 |
20160085159 | ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM INCLUDING VACUUM SCAVENGE FOR AN IMMERSION LITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS - A liquid immersion lithography apparatus includes an optical assembly having a last optical element, a first outlet facing downward, via which an immersion liquid is released, a first inlet via which the immersion liquid is drawn, and a containment member arranged to surround a last portion of the optical assembly. The containment member has (i) a second inlet facing downward, which is arranged radially-outwardly from the first outlet with respect to a space under the last optical element and via which fluid is removed from a gap formed under the containment member, and (ii) a second outlet facing downward, via which gas is supplied to the gap formed under the containment member, the second outlet being arranged radially-outwardly from the second inlet with respect to the space. | 03-24-2016 |
20160080737 | POINT SPREAD FUNCTION ESTIMATION OF OPTICS BLUR - A method for estimating an optics point spread function ( | 03-17-2016 |
20160080618 | LIGHT RECEIVING APPARATUS - Provided is a light receiving apparatus including a first light receiving unit; a body to which the first light receiving unit is secured; a first exterior portion that covers at least a portion of the body; and a mount that is capable of having an interchangeable lens attached thereto, to which the body and the first exterior portion are secured. Also provided is a light receiving apparatus, in which a body to which a first light receiving unit is secured and a first exterior portion that covers at least a portion of the body are secured to a mount that is capable of having an interchangeable lens attached thereto, and force placed on the first exterior portion is absorbed by the mount, such that transfer of the force placed on the first exterior portion to the body is reduced. | 03-17-2016 |
20160079179 | MARK FORMING METHOD, MARK DETECTING METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A mark forming method includes: exposing a wafer with a mask image to form first and second resist marks that have different shapes than one another based on a portion of the mask image; applying a polymer layer that contains a block copolymer to the wafer by spin-coating; forming self-assembled regions in the applied polymer layer; selectively removing a portion of the self-assembled regions; and forming first and second wafer marks on the wafer using the first and second resist marks. This makes it possible to form the marks when forming circuit patterns using self-assembly of a block copolymer. | 03-17-2016 |
20160077448 | LIQUID IMMERSION MEMBER, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DEVICE - A liquid immersion member forms, in an exposure apparatus, liquid immersion space through which exposure light emitted from an optical member passes, the liquid immersion member includes: a first member that is disposed at at least part of a space around the optical member and that includes a first lower surface facing an object which is movable below the optical member; and a movable second member that includes a second lower surface which is disposed at outer side than the first lower surface viewed from optical axis of the optical member and which faces the object and a third lower surface which is disposed at inner side than the second lower surface viewed from the optical axis and whose at least part is disposed above at least part of the first lower surface. | 03-17-2016 |
20160077316 | VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM - Provided is a variable magnification optical system comprising, in order from an object side along an optical axis, a first lens group G | 03-17-2016 |
20160072366 | DRIVE APPARATUS AND ROBOT DEVICE - A drive apparatus includes a motor having a drive part that rotates a first shaft member; a transmission part that transmits rotation of the first shaft member to a second shaft member which is different from the first shaft member; a first detection device provided at the first shaft member to detect information regarding rotation of the drive part; a second detection device provided at the second shaft member to detect information regarding rotation of the transmission part; and a prevention part that prevents movement of foreign substance toward a detection part which includes at least one of the first detection device and the second detection device. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070153 | EXCHANGEABLE LENS AND CAMERA BODY - An exchangeable lens includes: a mount unit at which a camera body is detachably engaged; a plurality of drive target members, conditions of which change as a drive force is applied thereto; an initialization unit that executes initialization processing for each of the plurality of drive target members; an initialization status transmission unit that transmits initialization statuses, each indicating a status of the initialization processing executed for one of the drive target members, to the camera body via a first transmission path over predetermined first cycles; and a drive condition transmission unit that transmits a drive condition of at least one drive target member among the plurality of drive target members to the camera body via a second transmission path different from the first transmission path over predetermined second cycles different from the predetermined first cycles. | 03-10-2016 |
20160067743 | VIBRATION DATA GENERATION PROGRAM AND VIBRATION DATA GENERATION DEVICE - A vibration data generation device that generates vibration data for a vibration reproduction device, which has a plurality of vibrators, in order to control each vibrators, includes an acquisition part that acquires information indicating a virtual vibration source which is input to an input part and a generation part that generates vibration data which includes a vibration pattern of each of the plurality of vibrators of the vibration reproduction device for reproducing a position of the acquired virtual vibration source. | 03-10-2016 |
20160063849 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method implemented by a computer, the method includes: detecting a position of an electronic device capable of communicating with a portable device; setting a range of a position at which the electronic device provides a notification pertaining to the portable device based on a position of the electronic device that has communicated with the portable device; and providing the notification based on the range set in the setting and the position of the electronic device detected in the detecting of a position. | 03-03-2016 |
20160060747 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COMPOUND FILM - An amount of nitrogen in a compound film is controlled. A method of manufacturing compound film comprising forming films laminated on a substrate placed at a film forming chamber is provided. According to the method of manufacturing compound film, a first compound layer including one or more elements selected from metal elements and semimetal elements and oxygen element and a second compound layer including one or more elements and nitrogen element are laminated alternately. The first compound layer is formed by a Filtered Arc Ion Plating method and the second compound layer is formed by a sputtering method. | 03-03-2016 |
20160059201 | BIOCHIP FIXING METHOD, BIOCHIP FIXING DEVICE, AND SCREENING METHOD FOR BIOMOLECULE ARRAY - A biochip fixing method includes: arranging a biochip on an object with a predetermined material interposed therebetween; and irradiating the predetermined material with energy waves via the object to fix the biochip to the object. | 03-03-2016 |
20160054488 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An optical element includes: a base; a multilayer film which is provided on the base and in which a plurality of unit laminate structures are laminated, each laminate structure having a first layer and a second layer provided on the first layer; and a plurality of spacer layers which are each provided at a different one of a plurality of interlaminar positions located between the unit laminate structures. | 02-25-2016 |
20160041401 | SPECKLE REDUCTING DEVICE AND PROJECTOR - A speckle reducing device includes: a polarization splitter element with a polarization splitter portion that splits incident light into first and second light containing a first and a second component respectively, which outputs the first and the second light along different directions; a first reflecting member that reflects the first light to reenter the polarization splitter element; a first conversion member disposed between the first reflecting member and the polarization splitter element, which converts the first light to third light containing the second component; a second reflecting member that reflects the third light to reenter the polarization splitter element; and a second conversion member disposed between the second reflecting member and the polarization splitter element, which converts the third light to fourth light containing the first component, wherein: the polarization splitter element outputs the second and the fourth light along one direction. | 02-11-2016 |
20160025955 | ZOOMING OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE ZOOMING OPTICAL SYSTEM - A zooming optical system is provided, which is constituted by, in order from an object: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens group having positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having negative refractive power; and a fifth lens group having positive refractive power. In the zooming optical system, the first lens group is moved along the optical axis upon zooming, at least a part of the second lens group to the fifth lens group being moved so as to include a component orthogonal to the optical axis, and the following conditional expressions are satisfied: 4.4101-28-2016 | |
20160023356 | Carrier System, Exposure Apparatus, Carrier Method, Exposure Method, Device Manufacturing Method, and Suction Device - A carrier system is provided with a wafer stage which holds a mounted wafer and is also movable along an XY plane, a chuck unit which holds the wafer from above in a non-contact manner above a predetermined position and is vertically movable, and a plurality of vertical movement pins, which can support from below the wafer held by the chuck unit on the wafer stage when the wafer stage is positioned at the predetermined position above and can also move vertically. Then, flatness of the wafer is measured by a Z position detection system, and based on the measurement results, the chuck unit and the vertical movement pins that hold (support) the wafer are independently driven. | 01-28-2016 |
20160005636 | SUCTION DEVICE, CARRY-IN METHOD, CARRIER SYSTEM AND EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - In a carrier system, a chuck unit is used to hold a placed wafer from above, and vertical-motion pins use suction to hold the wafer from below. Then, the chuck unit and the vertical-motion pins are subsequently lowered until a bottom surface of the wafer comes into contact with a wafer table. During the lowering, the holding force exerted by the chuck unit and the arrangement of chuck members are optimally adjusted such that, as a result of the restraint of the wafer by the chuck unit and the vertical-motion pins, localized surplus-restraint is imparted to the wafer, and warping does not occur. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004169 | MOVABLE BODY APPARATUS, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - One pair each of a Y linear motor (a total of four) on the +X side and the −X side that drive a reticle stage include one pair each of a stator section (a total of four) and three each of a mover section (a total of six) on the +X side and the −X side. In this case, the three each of the mover sections on the +X side and the −X side configure one each of a mover. The mover section located in the center in the Z-axis direction of each of the movers is used in common by each pair of the Y linear motors. Therefore, the weight of the mover section (reticle stage) of the reticle stage device is reduced, which allows a higher acceleration. Further, the mover section located in the center in the Z-axis direction of each of the movers coincides with a neutral plane of the reticle stage. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004079 | CONTROL DEVICE, HEAD-MOUNT DISPLAY DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR DETECTING HEAD MOTION OF A USER - It is possible to provide a technique for accurately performing an operation desired by a user. A user's head operation is identified according to information detected by a head motion detection unit. A process desired by the user is executed according to an angular velocity of the head motion. Moreover, the technique uses a control unit which can accurately execute an operation by the user's head operation without reflecting the return motion of the user's head in the process. The control unit executes a process for a start and an end of each process corresponding to the detected angular velocity according to a predetermined threshold value. | 01-07-2016 |
20150373472 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM - A data processing device includes a conversion processing unit configured to convert first vibration data into second vibration data configured to control localization of a vibration through a vibration state of a vibration unit included in an application device, on the basis of configuration information indicating a configuration of the vibration unit and the first vibration data which is input. | 12-24-2015 |
20150362633 | MGF2 OPTICAL THIN FILM INCLUDING AMORPHOUS SILICON OXIDE BINDER, OPTICAL ELEMENT PROVIDED WITH THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MGF2 OPTICAL THIN FILM | 12-17-2015 |
20150358770 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An electronic device includes: a communication unit that communicates with a first device through intra-body communication via a body of a user or near field communication; a position obtaining unit that obtains position information of the user; and a storage unit that stores information on use of the first device on a basis of a communication history between the first device and the communication unit, and the position information of the user, and can easily record play information. | 12-10-2015 |
20150355614 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND RECEPTION DEVICE - A control system includes: a first transmitter; a second transmitter; and a reception device. The first transmitter includes a transmission unit configured to transmit radio waves to the reception device, the second transmitter includes a transmission unit configured to transmit radio waves to the reception device; and the reception device includes: a reception unit configured to receive radio waves transmitted from the first transmitter and the second transmitter; an identification unit configured to identify whether a transmission source of the radio waves is the first transmitter or is the second transmitter based on the radio waves received by the reception unit; a measurement unit configured to measure the distance between the device and the transmission source of the radio waves identified by the identification unit; and a control unit configured to perform a first control that sets a limitation on the device or a second control that does not set a limitation on the device based on the distance, measured by the measurement unit, between the device and the transmission source of the radio waves. | 12-10-2015 |
20150355327 | SCAN MIRRORS FOR LASER RADAR - Laser radar systems include a pentaprism configured to scan a measurement beam with respect to a target surface. A focusing optical assembly includes a corner cube that is used to adjust measurement beam focus. Target distance is estimated based on heterodyne frequencies between a return beam and a local oscillator beam. The local oscillator beam is configured to propagate to and from the focusing optical assembly before mixing with the return beam. In some examples, heterodyne frequencies are calibrated with respect to target distance using a Fabry-Perot interferometer having mirrors fixed to a lithium aluminosilicate glass-ceramic tube. | 12-10-2015 |
20150350555 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - To check image changes corresponding to changes made to image-capture conditions by causing display unit to display multiple images captured under different image-capture conditions. Digital camera includes: image-capture unit having multiple first image sensors and multiple second image sensors disposed therein, first image sensors configured to capture image under first image-capture conditions, second image sensors configured to capture image under second image-capture conditions different from first image-capture conditions, image-capture unit configured to output first image data generated based on subject image which entered first image sensors and second image data generated based on subject image which entered second image sensors; and control unit configured to display first image based on first image data and second image based on second image data on display unit in such manner that selection can be made between respective recording forms of first image data and second image data. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348411 | INFORMATION CONTROL APPARATUS, DATA ANALYZING APPARATUS, SIGNAL, SERVER, INFORMATION CONTROL SYSTEM, SIGNAL CONTROL APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An information control apparatus including a determination unit that determines at least an attribute of an object to be analyzed on the basis of captured image data acquired by an imaging apparatus fixed to a signal and that generates determination result information. The information control apparatus further includes a surrounding information generating unit that generates a surrounding information table of the signal which corresponds to the determination result information, a data analyzing unit that generates analysis result information on the basis of the surrounding information table generated by the surrounding information generating unit, and an output unit that outputs the analysis result information to an external apparatus. | 12-03-2015 |
20150340682 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, INJECTION TREATMENT METHOD, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRODE MATERIAL - A processing apparatus includes: a seal chamber that communicates with interior and exterior of a main chamber; an evacuation unit that evacuates a gas from the main and/or the seal chamber; and a control unit that controls a first differential pressure between a pressure in the seal chamber and a first reference pressure by the evacuation unit; wherein: the evacuation unit has a first evacuation system that evacuates the gas from the seal chamber; the control unit has a first and second mode as operating modes for controlling the first differential pressure, the first evacuation system operating with a feedback control based on the first differential pressure in the first mode and with a control different from the feedback control in the second mode; and the control unit shifts the operating mode from the first to the second mode in accordance with increase in the gas in the main chamber. | 11-26-2015 |
20150338745 | EVALUATION METHOD AND DEVICE, PROCESSING METHOD, AND EXPOSURE SYSTEM - Using a substrate on which a structure has been formed with a plurality of sets of processing conditions, the present disclosure provides an evaluation device that evaluates one of said sets of processing conditions with high precision. This evaluation device is provided with an illumination system that uses illuminating light to illuminate a wafer on which a pattern has been provided via exposure using a plurality of sets of exposure conditions, including first exposure conditions and second exposure conditions; a light-receiving system and an imaging unit the detect light coming from the surface of the wafer; and a computation unit that, on the basis of detection results obtained by the imaging unit using first diffraction conditions and second diffraction conditions that differ in terms of illumination conditions and/or detection conditions, and that estimates the first exposure conditions used when the wafer is exposed. | 11-26-2015 |
20150325835 | JET NOZZLE, JET PROCESSING DEVICE, PROCESSING METHOD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CELL COMPONENT, AND SECONDARY CELL - A jet nozzle includes: a jet opening through which a fluid mixture of particles and gas is jetted; a first flow channel extending along a first direction to the jet opening; a flow diverging region located in the first flow channel at opposite the jet opening and comprises a plurality of flow diverging channels arranged in a direction intersecting with the first direction; a second flow channel that makes the particles join in the flow diverging region in a second direction which is at a predetermined angle to the first direction; and a third flow channel through which the gas is jetted to the first flow channel. | 11-12-2015 |
20150323786 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING AND IMPROVING PUPIL LUMINANCE DISTRIBUTION, ILLUMINATION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND ADJUSTMENT METHOD THEREOF, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - Improvement of pupil luminance distribution includes: a fifth process in which an index value obtained from the illumination pupil, using evaluation method of a first process to fourth process; a sixth process wherein a unit change amount of the index value in the discrete data acquired in the previous process is acquired for each unit pupil area; a seventh process wherein discrete data modulated by an improving technique using the unit change amount so that the index value nears a target index value is acquired; and an eighth process wherein an index value obtained corresponding to the modulated discrete data in the seventh process is acquired, using the evaluation method of the first process to the fourth process, and by repeatedly performing the sixth process to eighth process so an error of the index value obtained corresponding to the modulated discrete data falls within permissible range. | 11-12-2015 |
20150323771 | ZOOM LENS, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE ZOOM LENS - Provided is a zoom lens (ZL) including, in order from an object along an optical axis: a first lens group (G | 11-12-2015 |
20150323770 | VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM - Composing, in order from an object side: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens group having positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having positive refractive power and a fifth lens group; upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group, a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group, a distance between the third lens group and the fourth lens group and a distance between the fourth lens group and the fifth lens group being varied, and predetermined conditional expression being satisfied, thereby providing a small-size variable magnification optical system having a high zoom ratio and a high optical performance, an optical apparatus, and a method for manufacturing the variable magnification optical system. | 11-12-2015 |
20150319444 | VIDEO COMPRESSION DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE COMPRESSION DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - A moving image compression device has an obtaining unit, an image conversion unit, and a compression processing unit. The obtaining unit obtains a RAW moving image having plural frames associated in an order of imaging, the frames having pixels of three different color components which are disposed periodically according to a color array with two rows and two columns. The image conversion unit separates, in a target frame, a first pixel group corresponding to a first color component of odd rows and a second pixel group corresponding to the first color component of even rows, and alternately arrays, in a time base direction, a first image including the first pixel group and a second image including the second pixel group. The compression processing unit performs inter-frame prediction coding compression on the first image and the second image. | 11-05-2015 |
20150318306 | METHOD OF TRANSFERRING THIN FILM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, METHOD OF FORMING PIXEL ELECTRODE OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of transferring a thin film is a method of transferring a thin film formed on a first substrate to a second substrate, the method including: allowing the first substrate to come into contact with a liquid to swell the first substrate; allowing the second substrate and the thin film to come into contact with each other via the liquid; and drying the liquid to allow the thin film to adhere to the second substrate. | 11-05-2015 |
20150318077 | COMPOSITION, LAMINATE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATE, TRANSISTOR, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TRANSISTOR - A composition includes the following (a) to (c).
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20150311128 | DISPLAY ELEMENT MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - The display element manufacturing apparatus has a transporting part, which transports a substrate in a first direction, a first alignment system, which detects fiducial marks, a second alignment system, which is arranged at a prescribed distance from the first alignment system in the first direction and detects fiducial marks, calculating parts, which detect the fiducial marks and calculate the expansion/contraction of the substrate in the first direction or the transport speed of the substrate, and a processing part, which processes a prescribed position of the substrate based on at least one of the expansion/contraction of the substrate in the first direction or the transport speed of the substrate and the fiducial marks. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310535 | GLASSES SELLING SYSTEM, LENS COMPANY TERMINAL, FRAME COMPANY TERMINAL, GLASSES SELLING METHOD, AND GLASSES SELLING PROGRAM - A selling server stores prescription data of a customer transmitted from an optometrist terminal of an optometrist who performs optometry for a glasses prescription through a communication line in association with customer identification information, transmits image data of a frame candidate group of glasses to a customer terminal, transmits image data of a lens candidate group of the glasses to the customer terminal, receives information relating to a frame and a lens purchased by the customer and determined on the basis of a combined image of a frame image selected by the customer, a lens image selected by the customer, and a face image of the customer, and transmits prescription data of the customer to a lens company terminal of a lens company which processes the lens purchased by the customer. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309418 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING THERMALLY INDUCED RETICLE DISTORTION - An apparatus and method for measuring thermo-mechanically induced reticle distortion or other distortion in a lithography device enables detecting distortion at the nanometer level in situ. The techniques described use relatively simple optical detectors and data acquisition electronics that are capable of monitoring the distortion in real time, during operation of the lithography equipment. Time-varying anisotropic distortion of a reticle can be measured by directing slit patterns of light having different orientations to the reticle and detecting reflected, transmitted or diffracted light from the reticle. In one example, corresponding segments of successive time measurements of secondary light signals are compared as the reticle scans a substrate at a reticle stage speed of about 1 m/s to detect temporal offsets and other features that correspond to spatial distortion. | 10-29-2015 |
20150307963 | MAGNESIUM REFINING APPARATUS AND MAGNESIUM REFINING METHOD - A magnesium refining apparatus includes: a container that contains sample containing a magnesium compound; and a light concentrating device that concentrates sunlight to irradiate the container in order to heat an interior of the container to a predetermined temperature, wherein: the container has a reaction unit that is heated to the predetermined temperature by the light concentrating device to generate magnesium vapor from the sample with a thermal reduction reaction; and the light concentrating device is constructed of Cassegrain optical system having a first mirror surface constituted by a concave mirror and a second mirror surface constituted by a convex mirror, and concentrates reflected light of the sunlight on a surface of the sample in the container by guiding the sunlight reflected at the first mirror surface to the second mirror surface and then by reflecting the reflected sunlight guided from the first mirror surface at the second mirror surface. | 10-29-2015 |
20150307960 | MAGNESIUM REFINING APPARATUS AND MAGNESIUM REFINING METHOD - A magnesium refining apparatus includes: a container that contains sample containing a magnesium compound; and a light concentrating device that concentrates sunlight to irradiate the container in order to heat an interior of the container to a predetermined temperature, wherein: the container comprises a reaction unit that is heated to the predetermined temperature by the light concentrating device to generate magnesium vapor from the sample with a thermal reduction reaction, and a condenser unit that condenses the magnesium vapor; a sunlight transmitting member is provided on a housing surface of the container, and transmits the sunlight concentrated by the light concentrating device; the reaction unit is held in the container and the sample are conveyed into the reaction unit. | 10-29-2015 |
20150301458 | MOVABLE BODY APPARATUS, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A stage device is equipped with a surface plate and a wafer stage which is mounted on the surface plate and has an exhausting port formed on a surface facing the surface plate. In a state where the wafer stage lands on the surface plate, an air chamber is formed in between the surface plate and the wafer stage. Pressurized gas blows out from the exhausting port provided at a stage main section into the air chamber, and self-weight of the wafer stage is cancelled by an inner pressure of the air chamber. This allows to the wafer stage which has stopped on the surface plate to be moved manually. | 10-22-2015 |
20150301457 | EXPOSURE METHOD, SUBSTRATE STAGE, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An exposure apparatus exposes a substrate by projecting a pattern image onto the substrate through a liquid. The exposure apparatus includes a projection optical system by which the pattern image is projected onto the substrate, and a movable member which is movable relative to the projection optical system. A liquid-repellent member, at least a part of a surface of which is liquid-repellent, is provided detachably on the movable member, the liquid-repellent member being different from the substrate. | 10-22-2015 |
20150301302 | LENS BARREL, IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LENS BARREL - A lens barrel in which tilt adjustment can be made depending on the position of a lens unit in the optical axis direction. This lens barrel includes: at least three guide bars provided so as to extend along the optical axis direction; a driving unit that respectively drives the at least three guide bars in the optical axis direction; a lens frame holding unit that holds an image-capturing lens, the lens frame holding unit being attached to at least three guide bars and being driven in the optical axis direction by the at least three guide bars; and a control unit that controls said at least three linear actuators so as to adjust the respective drive amounts in the optical axis direction of the at least three guide bars and to tilt the lens frame holding unit from a direction orthogonal to the optical axis. | 10-22-2015 |
20150296125 | FOCUS DETECTION DEVICE AND IMAGE-CAPTURING APPARATUS - A focus detection device includes: an image sensor that includes a plurality of focus detection pixel rows, each having a plurality of focus detection pixels and each outputting a pair of focus detection signals; a spatial accumulation unit that calculates spatially accumulated values by adding together pairs of focus detection signals output from a first predetermined number of focus detection pixel rows among the plurality of focus detection pixel rows; and a focus detection unit that detects a focusing condition at an optical system based upon the spatially accumulated values. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293463 | DRIVING SYSTEM AND DRIVING METHOD, AND EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND EXPOSURE METHOD - A synthetic controlled variable (X | 10-15-2015 |
20150293335 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ZOOM LENS SYSTEM - A zoom lens system comprising, in order from an object side: a first lens group G | 10-15-2015 |
20150271439 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - A signal processing device capable of reducing noise included in an audio signal, including: a conversion unit for converting an audio signal to a frequency domain signal; a subtraction unit for subtracting from a first frequency domain signal corresponding to a period in which the audio signal includes a predetermined type of noise, the frequency domain signal of estimated noise estimated to reduce the predetermined type of noise; a correction signal generation unit for generating based on a second frequency domain signal corresponding to a period in which the audio signal does not include the predetermined type of noise,
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20150270491 | COMPOSITION, LAMINATE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LAMINATE, TRANSISTOR, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TRANSISTOR - A composition includes the following (a) to (c).
| 09-24-2015 |
20150268344 | RADAR SYSTEMS WITH DUAL FIBER COUPLED LASERS - Laser radar systems include a pentaprism configured to scan a measurement beam with respect to a target surface. A focusing optical assembly includes a corner cube that is used to adjust measurement beam focus. Target distance is estimated based on heterodyne frequencies between a return beam and a local oscillator beam. The local oscillator beam is configured to propagate to and from the focusing optical assembly before mixing with the return beam. In some examples, heterodyne frequencies are calibrated with respect to target distance using a Fabry-Perot interferometer having mirrors fixed to a lithium aluminosilicate glass-ceramic tube. | 09-24-2015 |
20150264333 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE-CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - The present invention includes the steps of: generating a temporary left parallax image using the pixel value of the left parallax pixels of the first image for each pixel; generating a temporary right parallax image using the pixel value of the right parallax pixels of the first image for each pixel; generating a standard view point image using the pixel values of at least the non-parallax pixels of the first image for each pixel; generating an edge enhanced standard view point image, by carrying out an edge enhancement process on the standard view point image; and generating a left direction view point image and a right direction view point image based on the edge enhanced standard view point image and the temporary left parallax image and the temporary right parallax image for each pixel. | 09-17-2015 |
20150261008 | FRESNEL LENS AND OPTICAL DEVICE - A refractive Fresnel lens used for an optical system including an image plane, which includes a plurality of zone lens surfaces disposed concentrically and a plurality of side wall surfaces each formed between adjacent zone lens surfaces, is characterized in that the side wall surfaces are modulated so as to spatially spread in the image plane noise light due to reflection and/or refraction at the side wall surfaces. | 09-17-2015 |
20150260750 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An electronic apparatus includes: a sensor unit configured to detect displacement information of a body including at least acceleration data; a still determination unit configured to determine whether or not the body is in a still state based on a change in a standard deviation with respect to the displacement information for a predetermined number of detections detected by the sensor unit; a gravity calculation unit configured to determine a start of a motion of the body based on a determination result determined by the still determination unit and calculate a gravity component based on first acceleration data that is acceleration data in the start of the motion of acceleration data detected by the sensor unit; a correction unit configured to correct second acceleration data that is acceleration data detected by the sensor unit while the body is moving, based on the gravity component calculated by the gravity calculation unit; and a motion determination unit configured to determine the motion based on the second acceleration data corrected by the correction unit. | 09-17-2015 |
20150253873 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - In order to provide an easy-to-use apparatus, provided is an electronic device comprising an input section that inputs information relating to a first instrument in a hand of a user; a control section that controls display in a display section based on the information input by the input section; an image capturing section that is capable of capturing an image of the user and the first instrument; an image adjusting section that adjusts the image captured by the image capturing section, according to the first instrument in the hand of the user; and a determining section that determines what body part of the user the first instrument is to be used on, based on the information relating to the first instrument. The image adjusting section adjusts at least one of a display region and size of the image captured by the image capturing section. | 09-10-2015 |
20150253551 | VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM - Comprising, in order from an object side: a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power; a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power; an aperture stop S; a third lens group G3 having positive refractive power; and a rear lens group GR; upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, at least the rear lens group GR being moved toward the object side, and a distance between the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2, a distance between the second lens group G2 and the third lens group G3, and a distance between the third lens group G3 and the rear lens group GR being varied; upon focusing on from an infinitely distant object to a closely distant object, the third lens group G3 as a whole being moved in the direction of the optical axis; at least a portion of the rear lens group GR being moved as a vibration reduction lens group to have a component in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis; and the vibration reduction lens group having negative refractive power, thereby providing a variable magnification optical system capable of realizing excellent optical performance, an optical apparatus, and a method for manufacturing the variable magnification optical system. | 09-10-2015 |
20150249792 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device comprising an image input unit ( | 09-03-2015 |
20150248585 | SUBJECT TRACKING APPARATUS, CAMERA HAVING THE SUBJECT TRACKING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR TRACKING SUBJECT - A subject tracking apparatus includes a light detector, a focus detector, and a tracking controller. The focus detector is configured to detect focus information at a plurality of focus detection regions in a view of an image. The focus information includes at least focus information detected at a subject region of a subject in the view. The tracking controller is configured to determine at least one first region having substantially same light information as light information detected at the subject region from among a plurality of light measurement regions, to determine at least one second region having substantially same focus information as the focus information detected at the subject region from among the plurality of focus detection regions, and to determine reference information for tracking the subject in the view based on the at least one first region and the at least one second region. | 09-03-2015 |
20150247995 | VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM - Composing, in order from an object side: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens group having positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having positive refractive power; and a fifth lens group having positive refractive power; upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group, a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group, a distance between the third lens group and the fourth lens group and a distance between the fourth lens group and the fifth lens group being varied; and the given conditional expressions being satisfied; thereby providing a small-size variable magnification optical system having a high zoom ratio and an excellent optical performance. | 09-03-2015 |
20150244924 | ACCESSORY, CAMERA, ACCESSORY SHOE, AND CONNECTOR - An accessory capable of communicating with a camera, includes a terminal section having a plurality of terminals. The plurality of terminals include a startup state providing terminal that provides, to the camera, a detection level by which the camera detects that the accessory is capable of being started up, a data signal terminal that outputs a data signal including information regarding the accessory to the camera, and a first reference potential terminal having a reference potential of the detection level and the data signal. The startup state providing terminal is disposed adjacent to the data signal terminal, and the first reference potential terminal is adjacent to the data signal terminal, and is disposed with the data signal terminal interposed between the startup state providing terminal and the first reference potential terminal. | 08-27-2015 |
20150242863 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD - To acquire information on products which a user has handled and at which a line of sight of the user has been stopped, associating with products that the user has purchased and the user's attributes. The present invention includes a first input unit to which information indicating that a user has reached for a first product is input; an estimating unit that estimates the attributes of the user; and a storage unit that stores the information indicating that the user has reached for the first product in association with the attributes of the user when the user has not purchased the first product, wherein when the user has purchased a second product in the same category as the first product, the storage unit stores information on the second product. | 08-27-2015 |
20150241672 | ZOOM LENS, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE ZOOM LENS - The present invention has, in order along the optical axis from the object side: a first lens group (G | 08-27-2015 |
20150234295 | DYNAMIC PATTERNING METHOD THAT REMOVES PHASE CONFLICTS AND IMPROVES PATTERN FIDELITY AND CDU ON A TWO PHASE-PIXELATED DIGITAL SCANNER - Phase conflicts in pattern transfer with phase masks can be resolve by exposing pattern features with a first pattern and a second pattern, wherein the second pattern is selected based on the phase conflicts. In scanned exposures using pulsed lasers, a number of exposures of the second pattern can be less than 20% of a total number of exposures. | 08-20-2015 |
20150234163 | VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM - A variable magnification optical system includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; and a third lens group having positive refractive power; upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group and a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group being varied. The variable magnification optical system further includes a V lens group GV having negative refractive power and being moved to have a component in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and an F lens group GF having positive refractive power and being moved along the optical axis upon focusing from an infinitely distant object to a close object, the V lens group GV being disposed on the more object side than the F lens group GF. Thereby, it is possible to provide the compact variable magnification optical system with a high zoom ratio and high performance, an optical apparatus therewith and a method for manufacturing the variable magnification optical system. | 08-20-2015 |
20150234162 | VARIABLE POWER OPTICAL ASSEMBLY, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND VARIABLE POWER OPTICAL ASSEMBLY FABRICATION METHOD - Comprising, in order from an object side: a first lens group G | 08-20-2015 |
20150234161 | VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM - Composing, in order from an object side: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; and a third lens group having positive refractive power; | 08-20-2015 |
20150234160 | VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM - Comprising, in order from an object side: a first lens group G | 08-20-2015 |
20150229858 | BACKSIDE ILLUMINATION IMAGE SENSOR, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF AND IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE - An image sensor includes a first pixel that is capable of outputting a focus detection signal and a second pixel that includes a semiconductor layer and a wiring layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first surface on which light enters, a second surface opposite from the first surface, and a photoelectric conversion unit that converts light to an electric charge and is disposed between the first surface and the second surface. The wiring layer is formed on a side of the second surface of the semiconductor layer and includes a signal output line through which the focus detection signal read out from the first pixel and an image-capturing signal generated according to the electric charge converted at the photoelectric conversion unit are output. | 08-13-2015 |
20150229829 | EXCHANGEABLE LENS AND CAMERA BODY - An exchangeable lens includes: a mount unit at which a camera body is detachably engaged; a plurality of drive target members, conditions of which change as a drive force is applied thereto; an initialization unit that executes initialization processing for each of the plurality of drive target members; an initialization status transmission unit that transmits initialization statuses, each indicating a status of the initialization processing executed for one of the drive target members, to the camera body via a first transmission path over predetermined first cycles; and a drive condition transmission unit that transmits a drive condition of at least one drive target member among the plurality of drive target members to the camera body via a second transmission path different from the first transmission path over predetermined second cycles different from the predetermined first cycles. | 08-13-2015 |
20150227075 | METHOD FOR IMPROVED CD CONTROL ON 2-PHASE DIGITAL SCANNER WITH NO LOSS TO IMAGE FIDELITY - Patterns from a phase array are transferred to a substrate such as a series of overlapping patterns and non-overlapping patterns. The overlapping patterns are associated with phase array pixel offsets so as to overlap at the substrate and the necessary overlap is based on substrate scan speed. Non-overlapping or offset patterns are obtained by varying optical pulse timing as the substrate is scanned, or by including a corresponding offset to pattern definition at the phase array. | 08-13-2015 |
20150226944 | VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION - Comprising, in order from an object side: a first lens group G | 08-13-2015 |
20150226936 | OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE OPTICAL SYSTEM - The present invention has, in order from an object: a first lens (L | 08-13-2015 |
20150226930 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND OPTICAL DEVICE PROVIDED THEREWITH - Provided is an optical system comprising a first lens group G | 08-13-2015 |
20150222136 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC POWER SUPPLY - An electric device including: a connecting unit connected to a connection line supplying an electric power of a predetermined rating and transmitting and receiving an information; a charging unit conducting a charging of a charging battery connected to an own device, by the electric power supplied by the connection line; an electric supplying unit supplying an electric power to a recording medium storing an information; a reading-and-writing unit performing a reading-and-writing operation of the recording medium; and an electronic source controlling unit performing a control of the electric power supplied to the charging unit, when the reading-and-writing unit performs the reading-and-writing operation of the recording medium, according to an access request to the recording medium via the connection line. | 08-06-2015 |
20150216756 | ASSIST INSTRUMENT - To wear and remove an assist instrument has been difficult because a user has to wear or remove the assist instrument on or from her/his body in a state that an elastic member is contracted. An assist instrument comprises: a wearing-removal member that is placed wearably and removably on a body of a user; an assist unit that is provided to the wearing-removal member, and assists muscular strength of the user by an action of at least one of extension and contraction by power supply; a control unit that controls an action of the assist unit; and an adjusting means that adjusts constriction of the body by the wearing-removal member at a time of at least one of wearing and detachment of the wearing-removal member. | 08-06-2015 |
20150215517 | FOCUS DETECTION DEVICE - A focus detection device includes: an image sensor that generates a first image signal string and a second image signal string in correspondence to a pair of images formed with a pair of light fluxes passing through an optical system; an image shift amount detection unit that generates a plurality of synthetic image signals each by adding together a first image signal and a second image signal, the first image signal and the second image signal corresponding to each other, each time the first image signal string and the second image signal string are shifted relative to each other by a predetermined extent, and detects an image shift amount indicating an extent of relative image shift between the pair of images based upon an evaluation value for the plurality of synthetic image signals; and a defocus amount calculation unit that calculates a defocus amount based upon the image shift amount. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215515 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS AND CAMERA BODY - An interchangeable lens includes: a mount unit on which a camera body can be mounted; a driven member; a drive unit that drives the driven member; a storage unit that stores lens data related to driving of the driven member by the drive unit; and a transmitter that sends lens-side judgment data, based on which whether the lens data is properly stored in the storage unit can be judged at the camera body, to the camera body. | 07-30-2015 |
20150212289 | EYEPIECE OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE EYEPIECE OPTICAL SYSTEM - Provided is an eyepiece optical system including, in order from an observation object (Ob): a first lens (L | 07-30-2015 |
20150205091 | EYEPIECE OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING EYEPIECE OPTICAL SYSTEM - Provided is an eyepiece optical system including at least three lenses disposed in order from an observation object (Ob) along an optical axis. A final lens disposed closest to an eye point (EP) (corresponds to the third lens (L | 07-23-2015 |
20150200612 | VIBRATION ACTUATOR UNIT, STAGE APPARATUS, AND OPTICAL APPARATUS - A vibration actuator unit comprises: an electromechanical converting element that converts an electric vibration of an applied actuating voltage into a mechanical vibration; and a contact portion that contacts an actuated surface of an actuating subject and a transmits a mechanical vibration of the electromechanical converting element to the actuated surface as an actuating force, wherein the electromechanical converting element periodically bends within a first vibration plane crossing the actuated surface to vibrate the contact portion within the first vibration plane, and periodically bends within a second vibration plane crossing the first vibration plane to vibrate the contact portion within the second vibration plane. | 07-16-2015 |
20150198898 | MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PATTERN FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD, EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - Position information of a movable body within an XY plane is measured with high accuracy by an encoder system whose measurement values have favorable short-term stability, without being affected by air fluctuations, and also position information of the movable body in a Z-axis direction orthogonal to the XY plane is measured with high accuracy by a surface position measuring system, without being affected by air fluctuations. In this case, since both of the encoder system and the surface position measuring system directly measure the upper surface of the movable body, simple and direct position control of the movable body can be performed. | 07-16-2015 |
20150192775 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY OPTICAL SYSTEM AND HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY - Provided is a head-mounted display optical system (LS) having: an optical deflection element (M | 07-09-2015 |
20150187916 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ZINC OXIDE THIN FILM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, ZINC OXIDE THIN FILM, THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, AND TRANSPARENT OXIDE WIRING - A method of manufacturing a zinc oxide thin film includes: immersing a base having a conductive portion in at least part of the base, in a solution containing zinc ions, hydroxide ions, and zinc complex ions; and by applying an alternating current to the conductive portion, forming a zinc oxide thin film on a region of the base, the region including the conductive portion. | 07-02-2015 |
20150185496 | IMAGING LENS, OPTICAL APPARATUS EQUIPPED THEREWITH, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING IMAGING LENS - An imaging lens including, in order from an object side: a first lens group G | 07-02-2015 |
20150185495 | VARIABLE-MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL DEVICE HAVING SAME VARIABLE-MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING VARIABLE-MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM - A variable magnification optical system includes, in order from the object side, a first lens group G | 07-02-2015 |
20150183677 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR SiO2-TiO2 BASED GLASS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR PHOTOMASK SUBSTRATE MADE OF SiO2-TiO2 BASED GLASS - A method for manufacturing an SiO | 07-02-2015 |
20150177379 | LASER RADAR WITH REMOTE LOCAL OSCILLATOR - Laser radar systems include a pentaprism configured to scan a measurement beam with respect to a target surface. A focusing optical assembly includes a corner cube that is used to adjust measurement beam focus. Target distance is estimated based on heterodyne frequencies between a return beam and a local oscillator beam. The local oscillator beam is configured to propagate to and from the focusing optical assembly before mixing with the return beam. In some examples, heterodyne frequencies are calibrated with respect to target distance using a Fabry-Perot interferometer having mirrors fixed to a lithium aluminosilicate glass-ceramic tube. | 06-25-2015 |
20150160728 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes: a display portion configured to display an image; a vibration portion configured to vibrate a body based on vibration control information; and a vibration control information generating portion configured to extract an object from an image and to generate the vibration control information according to the extracted object. | 06-11-2015 |
20150160044 | MEASUREMENT METHOD AND ENCODER DEVICE, AND EXPOSURE METHOD AND DEVICE - There is provided an encoder device to measure a relative moving amount between a first and second members. The encoder device includes: a reflective-type diffraction grating on the first member; a light source unit to radiate a measuring light; a first optical member on the second member; a first and second reflecting units on the second member that cause first and third diffracted lights generated via diffraction of the measuring light and having orders different from each other to come into the diffraction grating respectively, and cause second and fourth diffracted lights generated via diffraction of the first and third diffracted lights respectively to come into the first optical member; photo-detectors configured to detect interference lights between two diffracted lights and other light beam respectively; and a measuring unit to obtain the relative moving amount by using detection signals from the photo-detectors. | 06-11-2015 |
20150156430 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE-CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus, comprising: a receiving unit receiving a first image and image-capturing information associated with the first image; a determining unit determining, based on the image-capturing information, whether or not the first image is an image of a subject image in a view point direction corresponding to the aperture mask, using an output signal of an image sensor that includes a pixel array including first parallax pixels having the aperture mask with asymmetric directional properties in the long axis and short axis with respect to incident light flux of a single optical system and positioned to permit a portion of the light flux to pass; and an outputting unit outputting a corrected first image by carrying out a correction process having different frequency properties between the long axis direction and the short axis direction on the subject image in an unfocused region of the first image. | 06-04-2015 |
20150156260 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A portable electronic device includes a topology control section that controls a topology of a P2P network. The topology control section controls, when the portable electronic device functions as a root node, acceptance or rejection of connection of another portable electronic device that functions as an non-associated node to each node under control of the portable electronic device, and controls, when the portable electronic device functions as a branch node or a leaf node, acceptance or rejection of connection of the other portable electronic device that functions as the non-associated node to the portable electronic device according to the control of a root node. | 06-04-2015 |
20150153550 | VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION OPTICAL SYSTEM - Comprising, in order from an object side: a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power; a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power; a third lens group G3 having positive refractive power; and a fourth lens group G4 having positive refractive power; upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, the first lens group G1 being fixed in the position in the direction of the optical axis, at least the second lens group G2 and the third lens group G3 being moved in the direction of the optical axis such that a distance between the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2 is increased and a distance between the second lens group G2 and the third lens group G3 is decreased; and a predetermined conditional expression being satisfied, thereby providing a variable magnification optical system which can suppress variations in aberrations upon zooming and having excellent optical performance from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state, an optical apparatus, and a method for manufacturing a variable magnification optical system. | 06-04-2015 |
20150153549 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ZOOM LENS SYSTEM - A zoom lens system comprises, in order from an object side, a first lens group G1 having negative refractive power and a second lens group G2 having positive refractive power. Upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2 varies. The first lens group G1 comprises, in order from the object side, a negative meniscus lens L1 having a concave surface facing an image plane side, a negative lens L2 and a positive lens L3 having a convex surface facing the object side. The second lens group G2 comprises, in order from the object side, a positive lens L4, a first cemented lens L56 and a second cemented lens L78. And a predetermined conditional expression is satisfied. This makes it possible to provide a zoom lens system that is compact in size and has a superb imaging performance for correcting various aberrations well, an optical apparatus equipped with the zoom lens system and a manufacturing method for the zoom lens system. | 06-04-2015 |
20150145770 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PORTABLE DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method. | 05-28-2015 |
20150145763 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In order to improve the ease of use of an electronic device, the electronic device including a communication unit capable of communicating with a first device, and an input unit that inputs at least one of first information about a specification of the first device and second information about use of the first device by a user via the communication unit. | 05-28-2015 |
20150142558 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A content distribution system includes a content storage part that stores at least information, which corresponds to a subarea inside a specific area as content, a sales volume information-acquiring part that acquire sales volume information, a sales volume information storage part that stores the sales volume information, a distribution request-receiving part that receives a distribution request for a content, a distribution permission-determining part that determines whether a distribution of a content is permitted, a content-selecting part that selects the content to be distributed to the mobile electronic device, a content-distributing part that distributes the selected content, a distribution performance storage part, and a contribution point-calculating part that calculates a contribution point of the content distribution service. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142377 | ENCODER SYSTEM, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION SIGNAL GENERATION AND OUTPUT DEVICE - An encoder system includes a signal processing circuit including: (1) a first position data detection circuit that detects first position data representing positional displacement in rotation of an input shaft through first predetermined signal processing based on a first detection signal input from a first absolute position encoder; (2) a second position data detection circuit that detects second position data representing positional displacement in rotation of an output shaft through second predetermined signal processing based on a second detection signal input from a second absolute position encoder; (3) a position data combination circuit that combines the first and second position data to generate combined position data representing the number of rotations of the input shaft and the positional displacement within one rotation of the input shaft; and (4) a position data comparing and collating circuit that compares and collates the first and second position data. | 05-21-2015 |
20150138834 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A light source device includes: a light source; a package that houses the light source and has an opening section configured to emit light from the light source; a light reduction unit provided on the opening section and configured to reduce the light emitted from the opening section; and a light guide plate having: an incidence surface configured such that the light reduced by the light reduction unit is incident on the incidence surface; a light guide section configured to guide the light which is incident on the incidence surface; and an emission surface configured to emit the light guided by the light guide section. | 05-21-2015 |
20150138559 | FLARE-MEASURING MASK, FLARE-MEASURING METHOD, AND EXPOSURE METHOD - A method for measuring flare information of a projection optical system includes arranging, on an object plane of the projection optical system, a sectoral pattern surrounded by a first side, a second side which is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to the first side, and an inner diameter portion and an outer diameter portion which connect both ends of the first side and both ends of the second side; projecting an image of the sectoral pattern via the projection optical system; and determining the flare information based on a light amount of the image of the sectoral pattern and a light amount provided at a position away from the image. With the flare measuring method, it possible to correctly measure the flare information in an arbitrary angle range. | 05-21-2015 |
20150131069 | MASK PROTECTION DEVICE, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DEVICE - A reticle protection device capable of keeping a reticle therein is provided with an inner pod capable of keeping the reticle therein; an outer pod capable of keeping the inner pod therein; an electroconductive movable contact portion provided on at least one of the inner pod and the outer pod and being capable of coming into contact with an electroconductive film of the reticle; and a leaf spring for achieving electric conduction of the contact portion to at least one of the inner pod and the outer pod. The reticle is kept in the inner pod and the inner pod is kept in the outer pod, thereby enabling stable grounding of the reticle. | 05-14-2015 |
20150130986 | FOCUS DETECTION DEVICE, FOCUS ADJUSTMENT DEVICE AND CAMERA - A focus detection device includes: a plurality of micro-lenses at which light fluxes through an image forming optical system enter, disposed in a two-dimensional array pattern; a plurality of light receiving elements disposed in correspondence to each of the plurality of micro-lenses; a focus detection unit that executes a detection of a defocus quantity of the image forming optical system by detecting, based upon outputs from the plurality of light receiving elements, a phase difference of a plurality of light fluxes through different areas of the image forming optical system; and a recognition unit that recognizes, based upon the outputs from the plurality of light receiving elements, characteristics of a subject image formed onto the plurality of light receiving elements via the plurality of micro-lenses, wherein: the focus detection unit detects the defocus quantity through a method optimal for the characteristics of the subject image recognized by the recognition unit. | 05-14-2015 |
20150125140 | DRIVE APPARATUS, DRIVE METHOD, AND OPTICAL DEVICE - Noise produced during phase-difference changes is minimized without decreasing the responsiveness of a vibration-wave motor. A lens-side MCU ( | 05-07-2015 |
20150116830 | MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE LENS - A microscope objective lens includes a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group. The first lens group includes a positive lens component having a lens surface positioned nearest the object side and having a negative refractive power and at least one cemented lens component having a combined positive refractive power. The second lens group includes a diffractive optical element that joins two diffractive element components made from different optical materials and has a diffractive optical surface on which diffractive grating grooves are formed on the bonded surface of the two diffractive element components, and at least one cemented lens component. The third lens group includes at least one achromatic lens component having a combined negative refractive power, and a lens surface of the third lens group nearest the image side is arranged so that a concave surface of the lens surface faces the image side. | 04-30-2015 |
20150116684 | SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR AND EXPOSURE APPARATUS - The spatial light modulator is provided with: a substrate; a fixed electrode disposed on a surface of the substrate; a connecting section, which has one end of the connecting section connected to the surface of the substrate; a movable section, which is connected to another end of the connecting section; a supporting post section, which extends in the thickness direction of the substrate with one end of the supporting post section connected to the movable section; a reflecting member, which is connected to another end of the supporting post section; a movable electrode, which is disposed on a surface of the reflecting member, the surface of the reflecting member facing the fixed electrode; and a conductive layer, which is disposed on the supporting post section with a film thickness larger than that of the movable electrode, and which electrically connects between the movable section and the movable electrode. | 04-30-2015 |
20150114040 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR Si02-Ti02 BASED GLASS, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR PLATE-SHAPED MEMBER MADE OF Si02-Ti02 BASED GLASS, MANUFACTURING DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING DEVICE FOR Si02-Ti02 BASED GLASS - A method for manufacturing an SiO | 04-30-2015 |
20150109816 | LIGHT GUIDE PLATE, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A light guide plate configured to guide light which is incident on an incidence surface of a plate-shaped member so as to be emitted from an emission surface includes: a light amount adjusting unit configured to adjust the amount of light emitted from an excessive light amount region of the emission surface, wherein the light amount adjusting unit is provided on one of the incidence surface and the emission surface, corresponding to the excessive light amount region. | 04-23-2015 |
20150109673 | MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE LENS - A microscope objective lens includes a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group. The first lens group includes a positive lens component having a lens surface positioned nearest to the object side and having a negative refractive power. The second lens group includes a diffractive optical element that joins two diffractive element components respectively made from different optical materials and which has a diffractive optical surface on which diffractive grating grooves are formed on the bonded surface of the two diffractive element components. The third lens group includes at least one achromatic lens component having a negative refractive power, and a lens surface of the third lens group nearest to the image side is arranged so that a concave surface of the lens surface faces the image side. | 04-23-2015 |
20150109521 | CAMERA BODY AND INTERCHANGEABLE LENS - A camera body at which an interchangeable lens, holding a plurality of sets of optical characteristics data, each expressing specific optical characteristics in one of a plurality of representation formats, can be detachably mounted, includes: an identification information reception unit that receives lens-side identification information from the interchangeable lens, which indicates the plurality of representation formats; an identification information storage unit in which body-side identification information indicating each representation format that the camera body is capable of recognizing among the plurality of representation formats, is stored; a selection unit that selects a single representation format included in both the lens-side and the body-side identification information, among the plurality of representation formats; a request unit that issues a request to the interchangeable lens for the optical characteristics data corresponding to the selected representation format; and an optical characteristics reception unit that receives the requested optical characteristics data from the interchangeable lens. | 04-23-2015 |
20150108854 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a housing having a plurality of surfaces and a plurality of vibration portions provided in the housing so as to be in contact with at least one of the plurality of surfaces. The plurality of vibration portions include a first vibration portion, which vibrates at a frequency included in a first frequency band, and a second vibration portion, which vibrates at a frequency included in a second frequency band that is different from the first frequency band. | 04-23-2015 |
20150108337 | ENCODER HEAD DESIGNS - Encoder systems provide measurement and reference optical paths based on propagation in a common set of optical elements along paths that are displaced angularly or spatially. Associated measurement and reference beams are reflected by corner cubes to as to define first paths and second paths. The measurement and reference beams are combined to determine a work piece displacement in a manufacturing process. | 04-23-2015 |
20150107768 | POLYCRYSTALLINE CaF2 MEMBER, MEMBER FOR PLASMA TREATMENT DEVICE, PLASMA TREATMENT DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING FOCUSING RING - A polycrystalline CaF | 04-23-2015 |
20150099468 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND GARMENT - An electronic device includes: a communication unit that is capable of performing short range communication or communication through a human body of a user; a first input unit that, when the user touches a first object provided with a first communication member, inputs information on the first object via the first communication member and the communication unit; and a second input unit that, when the user touches a second object provided with a second communication member in a state where the user is holding the first object, inputs information on the second object via the second communication member and the communication unit. | 04-09-2015 |
20150097658 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM - A data processing apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive data including information indicating amplitude and information indicating frequency; and a processing unit configured to produce data used to generate vibration of a vibration unit based on the data and predetermined vector information. | 04-09-2015 |
20150092176 | MOVABLE BODY DRIVE METHOD AND SYSTEM, PATTERN FORMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRIVING MOVABLE BODY BASED ON MEASUREMENT VALUE OF ENCODER AND INFORMATION ON FLATNESS OF SCALE, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A drive unit drives a wafer stage in a Y-axis direction based on a measurement value of an encoder that measures position information of the wafer stage in the Y-axis direction and based on information on the flatness of a scale that is measured by the encoder. In this case, the drive unit can drive the wafer stage in a predetermined direction based on a measurement value after correction in which a measurement error caused by the flatness of the scale included in the measurement value of the encoder is corrected based on the information on the flatness of the scale. Accordingly, the wafer stage can be driven with high accuracy in a predetermined direction using the encoder, without being affected by the unevenness of the scale. | 04-02-2015 |
20150089793 | LENS SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD - A lens system having, in order from an object, at least a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, and second to fourth lens groups G2 to G4, wherein the first lens group G1 includes a front portion lens group G1a, and a rear portion lens group G1b which is disposed to an image side of the front portion lens group G1a with an air distance therebetween, and performs focusing by shifting the rear portion lens group G1b in the optical axis direction, and the fourth lens group G4 includes, in order from the object, a negative lens and a positive lens (cemented negative lens L41), a negative lens L42, and an aperture stop S, and is fixed in the optical axis direction with respect to an image plane I upon zooming from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state. | 04-02-2015 |
20150085387 | PHOTOGRAPHING LENS, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE PHOTOGRAPHING LENS - Provided is a photographing lens (ML) including a first lens group (G | 03-26-2015 |
20150084146 | BACKSIDE ILLUMINATION IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE - A backside illumination image sensor that includes a semiconductor substrate with a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and a read circuit formed on a front surface side of the semiconductor substrate, and captures an image by outputting, via the read circuit, electrical signals generated as incident light having reached a back surface side of the semiconductor substrate is received at the photoelectric conversion elements includes: a light shielding film formed on a side where incident light enters the photoelectric conversion elements, with an opening formed therein in correspondence to each photoelectric conversion element; and an on-chip lens formed at a position set apart from the light shielding film by a predetermined distance in correspondence to each photoelectric conversion element. The light shielding film and an exit pupil plane of the image forming optical system achieve a conjugate relation to each other with regard to the on-chip lens. | 03-26-2015 |
20150077858 | EYEPIECE OPTICAL SYSTEM AND OPTICAL APPARATUS - Providing an eyepiece optical system | 03-19-2015 |
20150077732 | DRIVE METHOD FOR SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR, METHOD FOR GENERATING PATTERN FOR EXPOSURE, AND EXPOSURE METHOD AND APPARATUS - In a drive method for a spatial light modulator, out of a first boundary region and a second boundary region arranged adjacently in a Y-direction and extending in an X-direction, mirror elements arranged at a first pitch not resolved by a projection optical system, in the X-direction in the first boundary region are set in the phase 0, and the other mirror elements therein are set in the phase π; mirror elements arranged at a second pitch not resolved by the projection optical system, in the X-direction in the second boundary region are set in the phase π, and the other mirror elements therein are set in the phase 0. | 03-19-2015 |
20150077730 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND DEVICE FABRICATION METHOD - An exposure apparatus includes a projection system; a liquid supply system configured to supply liquid to a space under the projection system; a liquid recovery system configured to recover the supplied liquid via a recovery opening; a separator fluidically connected to the recovery opening, which separates one of the liquid and gas, which has been collected via the recovery opening, from the other; a flow-meter fluidically connected to the recovery opening; a stage system configured to move a movable member on which a substrate is held; and a measurement system having a light receiving part which receives a measurement light through a light-transmissive member provided at the movable member and through the liquid between the projection system and the light-transmissive member. | 03-19-2015 |
20150076931 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus includes: a body unit that houses an electronic circuit; a vibration unit that is provided in the body unit, is configured to vibrate in a predetermined direction, and has a variable frequency of vibration; a plurality of resonators that are each provided in a different portion of the body unit and are each configured to resonate with vibration having a different frequency; and a transmission unit that is configured to transmit vibration of the vibration unit to the plurality of resonators. | 03-19-2015 |
20150065330 | OPTICAL GLASS, OPTICAL ELEMENT, OPTICAL SYSTEM, AND OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical glass includes, in weight percent: 15% to 36% of SiO | 03-05-2015 |
20150058082 | SERVER APPARATUS, SPECIFICATION DETERMINATION METHOD, AND SPECIFICATION DETERMINATION PROGRAM - A server apparatus includes: a communication unit that communicates with a user terminal and a manufacturer terminal; an additional information communication unit that transmits, when the communication unit receives additional function information indicating a function to be added to a basic device from the user terminal, the additional function information to the manufacturer terminal through the communication unit; a specification information communication unit that transmits, when the communication unit receives specification information indicating a specification of an additional device for realizing the function from the manufacturer terminal, the specification information to the user terminal through the communication unit; and a specification determination unit that determines, when the communication unit receives, from the user terminal, selection information indicating one specification selected from among specifications indicated by the specification information transmitted to the user terminal, the one specification indicated by the selection information as the specification of the additional device. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055221 | ZOOMING OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ZOOMING OPTICAL SYSTEM - A zooming optical system includes, in order from an object side along an optical axis: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens group having positive refractive power; and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power; upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group is varied, a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group is varied, and a distance between the third lens group and the fourth lens group is varied; the third lens group is composed of one positive lens; and a focus from an infinite-distance object up to a near-distance object is conducted by moving the third lens group in a direction of the optical axis. | 02-26-2015 |
20150051105 | NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION METHOD, DETECTION PROBE, DETECTION PROBE SET, AND NUCLEIC ACID QUANTIFICATION METHOD - A method for detecting a target nucleic acid, comprising: (a) contacting a nucleic acid sample comprising a target nucleic acid, comprising a first portion and a second portion, with: (i) a detection probe, wherein the detection probe is labeled with a labeling substance and comprises a nucleic acid sequence that forms a stem-loop structure and having a 5′ protruding end or a 3′ protruding end that is capable of hybridizing to the second portion, and (ii) a capture probe comprising a nucleic acid sequence capable of hybridizing to the first portion, wherein the capture probe is immobilized to a substrate, under conditions to form a target nucleic acid-detection probe-capture probe complex by hybridizing the second portion to the detection probe and hybridizing the first portion to the capture probe; (b) ligating a first end of the detection probe with an end of the target nucleic acid and ligating a second end of the detection probe with an end of the capture probe; and (c) detecting the labeling substance of the nucleic acid-detection probe-capture probe complex formed on the substrate. | 02-19-2015 |
20150043086 | ZOOMING OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ZOOMING OPTICAL SYSTEM - A compact zooming optical system, an optical apparatus and a method for manufacturing the zooming optical system having a vibration reduction function, a high zooming ratio, a wide-angle view and superb optical performance are provided, the system including, in order from an object side: a first lens group G | 02-12-2015 |
20150043078 | ZOOM LENS AND OPTICAL APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - Provided is a zoom lens having, in order from an object: a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power; a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power; and a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power. The first lens group (G1) and the third lens group (G3) respectively move toward the object upon zooming from the wide-angle end state to the telephoto end state. The first lens group (G1) includes a diffraction optical element (DOE) in which two optical elements, constituted by optical materials of which refractive index difference at the d-line is 0.45 or less, are cemented and a diffraction optical surface (corresponding to the optical surface with the radius of curvature R8 in FIG. | 02-12-2015 |
20150042970 | MIRROR ASSEMBLY WITH HEAT TRANSFER MECHANISM - A mirror assembly ( | 02-12-2015 |
20150036112 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An exposure apparatus that exposes a substrate includes: an optical system that includes an emission surface from which an exposure light is emitted; a first surface that is disposed in at least a part of a surrounding of an optical path of the exposure light emitted from the emission surface; a second surface that is disposed in at least a part of a surrounding of the first surface and at a position lower than the first surface; a space portion into which a liquid can flow via a first aperture between the first surface and the second surface and which is opened to the atmosphere via a second aperture different from the first aperture; and a first recovery portion that recovers at least a part of the liquid flowing into the space portion. Here, the emission surface, the first surface, and the second surface are opposed to the surface of the substrate in at least a part of the exposure of the substrate, and the substrate is exposed with the exposure light from the emission surface via the liquid between the emission surface and the surface of the substrate. | 02-05-2015 |
20150031564 | LIGAND HAVING THREE FINGER STRUCTURE AND A METHOD FOR DETECTING A MOLECULE BY USING THEREOF - The present invention improves in vitro virus synthesis efficiency and stability of mRNA derived from screened cDNA in a cDNA display method to improve the efficiency and reliability of the production of a peptide by a molecular evolutionary engineering technique. Provided is a ligand which comprises three fingers formed from antiparallel β-sheets and a loop region intercalated between the antiparallel β-sheets, wherein at least a fingertip part formed by the loop region of each of the fingers is bound to the target molecule, and wherein the ligand comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1. In the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, X7 represents an arbitrary amino acid residue that constitutes the fingertip part of each of the fingers, each numeric character represents the number of amino acid residues, and X7 and X4 are not composed of the same amino acid residues as each other. | 01-29-2015 |
20150028235 | VALVE, MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE, MICROSTRUCTURE, VALVE SHEET, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING VALVE SHEET, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE - Provided is a valve formed of a shape-memory polymer disposed in a flow channel, in which a flow of fluid in the flow channel is adjusted by deformation of the valve. | 01-29-2015 |
20150022900 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE - A lens barrel having an image forming optical system including a first optical system and a second optical system which is moveable independently from the first optical system, a first driving portion which drives the first optical system during a magnification changing operation of the image forming optical system, and a second driving portion which drives the second optical system during the magnification changing operation, along with driving the second optical system during a focus adjustment of the image forming system. | 01-22-2015 |
20150022690 | INFORMATION DISPLAYING APPARATUS - Recorded information is grouped in recording units. The information of each recording unit is displayed by the order of older recording date based upon information recorded in memory. The recording time of each recording unit is displayed on the left edge of the display screen, to the right of which is a memo icon indicating memo information, a thumbnail image indicating shooting image information, a sound icon indicating sound, and reproduction time information for each recording unit. If a predetermined recording unit is designated and reproduced, the screen is re-displayed so that the reproduced recording unit appears at the lowermost line of the screen. If a new recording unit is recorded, the newest recording unit is displayed at the lowermost line. If the screen is scrolled and another display screen is displayed by operation of a scroll key, a screen similar to the previously displayed screen is displayed. | 01-22-2015 |
20150015896 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR REDUCING ERRORS IN GOOS-HANCHEN CORRECTIONS OF DISPLACEMENT DATA - An exemplary method involves, in a system comprising a tool that performs a task on a workpiece, a method for determining displacement of the workpiece relative to the tool. Respective displacements of loci of at least a region of the workpiece are mapped using a Goos-Hänchen-insensitive (GH-insensitive) displacement sensor to produce a first set of physical displacement data for the region. Also mapped are respective displacements, from the tool, of the loci using a GH sensitive sensor to produce a second set of optical displacement data for the region. Goodness of fit (GOF) is determined of the second set of data with the first set. According to the GOF, respective GH-correction (GHC) coefficients are determined for at least one locus of the region. When measuring displacement of the at least one locus in the region relative to the tool, the respective GHC coefficient is applied to the measured displacement to reduce an error that otherwise would be present in the measured displacement due to a GH effect. | 01-15-2015 |
20150009386 | A/D CONVERSION CIRCUIT, AND SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - Provided is an ADC in which a plurality of pixel signals input through a vertical signal line of a solid-state image pickup apparatus are held in advance using some capacitors among a plurality of capacitors within the ADC. A potential of a node is generated by the respective pixel signals held in the capacitors. Thereafter, the potential of the node is changed by changing the voltages of counter electrodes of the capacitors, and the digital values of the pixel signals are generated by comparing the potential of the node with a predetermined potential. | 01-08-2015 |
20140375976 | MOVABLE BODY DRIVE METHOD AND SYSTEM, PATTERN FORMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRIVING MOVABLE BODY BASED ON MEASUREMENT VALUE OF ENCODER AND INFORMATION ON FLATNESS OF SCALE, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A drive unit drives a wafer stage in a Y-axis direction based on a measurement value of an encoder that measures position information of the wafer stage in the Y-axis direction and based on information on the flatness of a scale that is measured by the encoder. In this case, the drive unit can drive the wafer stage in a predetermined direction based on a measurement value after correction in which a measurement error caused by the flatness of the scale included in the measurement value of the encoder is corrected based on the information on the flatness of the scale. Accordingly, the wafer stage can be driven with high accuracy in a predetermined direction using the encoder, without being affected by the unevenness of the scale. | 12-25-2014 |
20140362452 | ZOOMING OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ZOOMING OPTICAL SYSTEM - A zooming optical system that is compact and has high zooming ratio and superb optical performance, optical system and a method for manufacturing the zooming optical system, are provided. The zooming optical system includes, in order from an object along the optical axis, a first lens group G | 12-11-2014 |
20140362356 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, MOVABLE BODY DRIVE SYSTEM, PATTERN FORMATION APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - While a wafer stage moves linearly in a Y-axis direction, surface position information of a wafer surface at a plurality of detection points set at a predetermined interval in an X-axis direction is detected by a multipoint AF system, and by a plurality of alignment systems arranged in a line along the X-axis direction, marks at different positions on the wafer are each detected, and a part of a chipped shot of the wafer is exposed by a periphery edge exposure system. This allows throughput to be improved when compared with the case when detection operation of the marks, detection operation of the surface position information (focus information), and periphery edge exposure operation are performed independently. | 12-11-2014 |
20140355901 | ALGORITHM FOR MINIMIZING LATENT SHARP IMAGE COST FUNCTION AND POINT SPREAD FUNCTION COST FUNCTION WITH A SPATIAL MASK IN A REGULARIZATION TERM - A method for deblurring a blurry image ( | 12-04-2014 |
20140355129 | ZOOM LENS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ZOOM LENS - A zoom lens including, from an object: a front group having negative power; and a rear group having positive power, the rear group including, from the object, a positive lens, a negative lens having a concave surface facing the object, a cemented positive lens constructed by a negative lens and a positive lens, and a cemented lens constructed by a positive lens and a negative lens, the rear group further including a focusing group disposed to the object side of the positive lens La for focusing from infinity to a close object by moving from the object side to an image side, a distance between the front group and the rear group being varied thereby zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, and given condition being satisfied, thereby providing a downsized zoom lens having wide angle of view and excellent optical performance with fewer lenses. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354971 | EXPOSURE METHOD, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - Within area where of four heads installed on a wafer stage, heads included in the first head group and the second head group to which three heads each belong that include one head different from each other face the corresponding areas on a scale plate, the wafer stage is driven based on positional information which is obtained using the first head group, as well as obtain the displacement (displacement of position, rotation, and scaling) between the first and second reference coordinate systems corresponding to the first and second head groups using the positional information obtained using the first and second head groups. By using the results and correcting measurement results obtained using the second head group, the displacement between the first and second reference coordinate systems is calibrated, which allows the measurement errors that come with the displacement between areas on scale plates where each of the four heads face. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354967 | ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM INCLUDING A TRANSPORT REGION FOR AN IMMERSION LITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS - An immersion lithography apparatus includes (i) an optical assembly including an optical element, and configured to project a beam onto a substrate through an immersion liquid; (ii) a containment member that surrounds a path of the beam; and (iii) a stage on which the substrate is held, the substrate on the stage being moved below and spaced from a bottom surface of the containment member. The containment member includes: (1) a nozzle outlet via which water as the immersion liquid is released, (2) a recovery channel via which the immersion liquid is recovered from a gap between the containment member and the substrate and/or the stage, and (3) a fluid channel via which water is released to the gap between the containment member and the substrate and/or the stage, the fluid channel being provided radially inward of the recovery channel. | 12-04-2014 |
20140348423 | IMAGE SORTING METHOD - An image sorting method includes: inputting a two-dimensional distribution function of a color plane image; sequentially generating a high-frequency subband image from plural resolutions by filtering the color plane image, generating a high-frequency image by sequentially combining the high-frequency subband images from low resolution, preparing a two-dimensional distribution function of an edge plane image that's defined by raising each pixel value of the high-frequency image to a second power; expanding the two-dimensional distribution functions of the color plane image and edge plane image into a two-dimensional Legendre series and two-dimensional Fourier series, respectively, describing the two-dimensional color distributions of the color plane image and edge plane image by a Legendre expansion coefficient and a Fourier expansion coefficient, respectively; evaluating the distribution of the color plane image based on the Legendre and Fourier expansion coefficients; and sorting the color plane image into images of multiple categories based on the evaluation. | 11-27-2014 |
20140340667 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An exposure apparatus is equipped with an encoder system which measures positional information of a wafer stage by irradiating a measurement beam using four heads installed on the wafer stage on a scale plate which covers the movement range of the wafer stage except for the area right under a projection optical system. Placement distances of the heads here are each set to be larger than width of the opening of the scale plates, respectively. This allows the positional information of the wafer stage to be measured, by switching and using the three heads facing the scale plate out of the four heads according to the position of the wafer stage. | 11-20-2014 |
20140340534 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING IMAGE-RELATED INFORMATION DISPLAYING FUNCTION - In an electronic apparatus having a user identification function or in a user identification method, an electronic apparatus and an electronic instrument having stored therein user personal information communicate in wireless with each other so as to enable the electronic apparatus to automatically identify the electronic apparatus user. If the electronic apparatus identifies a plurality of possible users, the electronic apparatus automatically selects the user by executing specific user identification processing. | 11-20-2014 |
20140334022 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS, CAMERA BODY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An interchangeable lens to be detachably attached to a camera body, that includes a holding unit at which a plurality of contacts is arranged, in the interchangeable lens, the first contact is arranged on one end and the eleventh contact is arranged on another end of the arrangement of the twelve contacts; the second contact is arranged next to the first contact in the arrangement of the twelve contacts; and the twelfth contact is arranged next to the eleventh contact in the arrangement of the twelve contacts. | 11-13-2014 |
20140334013 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ZOOM LENS SYSTEM - In a zoom lens system, an optical apparatus, and a manufacturing method, there are provided, in order from an object side: a first lens group having positive power, a second lens group having negative power, a third lens group having positive power, a fourth lens group having negative power, a fifth group having positive power, and an aperture stop disposed to an image side of the second lens group. Upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens and second lens groups increases, a distance between the second and third lens groups decreases, a distance between the third and fourth lens groups varies, and a distance between the fourth and fifth lens groups varies. With given conditions being satisfied, high optical performance with suppressing variation in aberrations are achieved. | 11-13-2014 |
20140334012 | ZOOM LENS, OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE ZOOM LENS - A zoom lens including, in order from an object: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens group having positive refractive power; and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power, wherein when f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens group, and
| 11-13-2014 |
20140333909 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DEVICE - An exposure apparatus exposes a substrate via a projection optical system and liquid. The exposure apparatus includes a first pipe section that flows liquid supplied from a liquid supplying device, and a second pipe section that is disposed at an outside of the first pipe section so as to surround the first pipe section and flows liquid supplied from the liquid supplying device. | 11-13-2014 |
20140330684 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An electronic device that is convenient to use is provided. The electronic device provided includes an operating unit that receives an operation of a user; an image capturing unit that is able to capture an image of an appearance of the user; an information providing unit that provides information to the user based on the image captured by the image capturing unit, wherein the image capturing unit captures an image of the user when the user is operating the operating unit. | 11-06-2014 |
20140327899 | MOVABLE BODY SYSTEM, MOVABLE BODY DRIVE METHOD, PATTERN FORMATION APPARATUS, PATTERN FORMATION METHOD, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An exposure apparatus exposes a substrate with an exposure beam via a projection system supported by a frame. A substrate stage having a table that mounts the substrate is placed on a base under the projection system. A measurement device has a plurality of heads provided at the table and each irradiate a measurement beam on a grating section supported by the frame, and measures positional information of the table by a head of the plural heads, that faces the grating section. A drive device drives the substrate stage to move the substrate. A controller controls a drive of the substrate stage based on displacement information of a head used in measurement of the positional information or correction information to compensate a measurement error of the measurement device that occurs due to a displacement of the head, and based on the positional information measured by the measurement device. | 11-06-2014 |
20140320835 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INSPECTING SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR, AND EXPOSURE METHOD AND DEVICE - A method for inspecting a spatial light modulator includes: performing such control that in an inspection target area in an array of mirror elements, the mirror elements in a first state in which incident light is given a phase change amount of 0 and the mirror elements in a second state in which incident light is given a phase change amount of 180° (π) become arrayed in a checkered pattern; guiding light having passed the inspection target area to a projection optical system with a resolution limit coarser than a width of an image of one mirror element, to form a spatial image; and inspecting a characteristic of the spatial light modulator from the spatial image. This method allows us to readily perform the inspection of the characteristic of the spatial light modulator having the array of optical elements. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320833 | OPTICAL ARRANGEMENT OF AUTOFOCUS ELEMENTS FOR USE WITH IMMERSION LITHOGRAPHY - A lithographic projection apparatus includes a projection system having a last element, by which an exposure light is projected onto an upper surface of a wafer through liquid locally covering a portion of the upper surface of the wafer. The last element has a lower surface from which the exposure light is emitted. The last element also has an outer surface which extends upwardly from an edge portion of the lower surface. The apparatus also includes a space along the outer surface of the last element, to which the liquid is supplied from above the lower surface of the last element. The space is defined by the outer surface of the last element and a surface opposing the outer surface of the last element. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320832 | POSITION-MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS - Apparatus are disclosed for measuring the position of an object surface along an axis. An exemplary apparatus has at least one actuator coupled to a fixed member such as a metrology frame. At least one analog proximity sensor is coupled to the at least one actuator. The at least one actuator is controllably operated to position the at least one proximity sensor at a fixed distance along the axis from a surface that is fixed relative to the fixed me+mber. A controller, coupled to the actuator and to the proximity sensor, is configured to compute a position of the object surface along the axis based on a known location of the fixed surface along the axis, the fixed distance from the fixed surface, and position signals from the at least one proximity sensor. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320831 | ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM INCLUDING VACUUM SCAVENGE FOR AN IMMERSION LITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS - A liquid immersion exposure apparatus includes an optical assembly having a final optical element, from which exposure light is projected through immersion liquid filling an optical path of the exposure light under the final optical element, a containment member surrounding a tip portion of the optical assembly, and a movable stage to hold a substrate and having an upper surface around the held substrate. An apparatus frame supports the optical assembly and the containment member, and an optical mount isolator, which has an actuator, isolates the optical assembly from vibrations of the apparatus frame. A first inlet of the containment member faces at least one of the substrate and the stage and collects fluid from a gap between the containment member and the at least one of the substrate and the stage. A gas supply outlet of the containment member supplies gas to the gap. | 10-30-2014 |
20140313501 | CONTROLLER FOR OPTICAL DEVICE, EXPOSURE METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DEVICE - An exposure method for exposing a mask pattern, which includes plural types of patterns, with a high throughput and optimal illumination conditions for each type of pattern. The method includes guiding light from a first spatial light modulator illuminated with pulse lights of illumination light to a second spatial light modulator and exposing a wafer with light from the second spatial light modulator, accompanied by: controlling a conversion state of the second spatial light modulator including a plurality of second mirror elements; and controlling a conversion state of the first spatial light modulator including a plurality of first mirror elements to control intensity distribution of the illumination light on a predetermined plane between the first spatial light modulator and the second spatial light modulator. | 10-23-2014 |
20140313495 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS BASED ON USE OF THE OPTICAL ELEMENT - An optical element for use in an exposure apparatus configured to illuminate a mask with an exposure light beam for transferring a pattern on the mask onto a substrate through a projection optical system and to interpose a given liquid in a space between a surface of the substrate and the projection optical system. The optical element includes a first anti-dissolution member provided directly on a surface of a transmissive optical element on the substrate's side of the projection optical system, and a second anti-dissolution member formed on the first anti-dissolution member on the substrate's side of the first anti-dissolution member. | 10-23-2014 |
20140307326 | EYEPIECE LENS, VIEWFINDER OPTICAL SYSTEM AND OPTICAL APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING EYEPIECE LENS - An eyepiece lens (EL) used for a viewfinder optical system (VF) for viewing, using the eyepiece lens (EL), an image formed by an objective lens (OL), an image displayed by a display member, or an object, wherein an antireflection coating ( | 10-16-2014 |
20140307245 | ILLUMINATION OPTICAL ASSEMBLY, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An illumination optical system can form a pupil intensity distribution with a desired beam profile. The illumination optical system for illuminating an illumination target surface with light from a light source is provided with a spatial light modulator which has a plurality of optical elements arrayed on a predetermined surface and individually controlled and which variably forms a light intensity distribution on an illumination pupil of the illumination optical system; a divergence angle providing member which is arranged in a conjugate space including a surface optically conjugate with the predetermined surface and which provides a divergence angle to an incident beam and emits the beam; and a polarizing member which is arranged at a position in the vicinity of the predetermined surface or in the conjugate space and which changes a polarization state of a partial beam of a propagating beam propagating in an optical path. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307238 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING DEVICE - A liquid immersion exposure apparatus exposes a substrate with an exposure beam via a liquid immersion area formed on a portion of a surface of the substrate. The apparatus includes a projection system, a first nozzle member having an aperture through which the exposure beam is projected, the first nozzle member having a liquid supply inlet and a liquid recovery outlet, a second nozzle member having a gas supply inlet via which a gas is supplied to a space surrounding the liquid immersion area during the exposure, a driving system which moves the second nozzle member relative to the first nozzle member, and a stage system having a holder which holds the substrate and which is movable relative to and below the projection system, the first nozzle member and the second nozzle member. | 10-16-2014 |
20140300878 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - In an immersion exposure apparatus, a projection system includes an optical element having a light emitting surface that contacts immersion liquid and an outer surface above the light emitting surface. A holding member holds the optical element, and a liquid confinement member surrounds the optical element to form a gap between the optical element and the liquid confinement member. The outer surface of the optical element includes a first part extending upwardly with respect to the light emitting surface, and a second part above the gap and extending radially outwardly with respect to the first part. The gap is between the first part and an inner surface of the liquid confinement member, which has an upper surface extending radially outwardly with respect to the inner surface. The holding member holds the optical element over a portion of the upper surface of the liquid confinement member. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300562 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a detection unit that detects movement of at least a housing; an information generation unit that generates vibration information based on a quantity value of a predetermined managed object item and the movement of the housing which is detected by the detection unit; and a vibration unit that vibrates based on the vibration information. | 10-09-2014 |
20140297543 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A BULLETIN BOARD FOR PLACING AN IMAGE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC ALBUM SERVICE - A service provider of an electric bulletin board and electric album places a server at a data center and a service user searches a website, connecting a terminal to the Internet. A remark of the service user is carried in the electric bulletin board. The service user stores an image onto a memory of an electric album service. A demand for a browse of an image provide for the electric album service can be made through a display screen of the electric bulletin board. When an image is permitted to be browsed by a third party, a browse in the bulletin board is permitted, but when an image is not permitted to be browsed by a third party, the browse in the bulletin board is banned. | 10-02-2014 |
20140296111 | Protein-Immobilizing Solid Phase, Polynucleotide-Immobilizing Solid Phase, and Nucleic Acid Recovery Method - A protein-immobilizing solid phase is a protein-immobilizing solid phase comprising an mRNA-nucleic acid linker-protein complex, obtained by linking the mRNA and the protein encoded by that mRNA through the nucleic acid linker, immobilized on the solid phase, wherein the nucleic acid linker has a photocleavage site and a solid phase binding site. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293252 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An exposure apparatus exposes a substrate with illumination light via a projection optical system and liquid, and includes a controller that controls movement of first and second movable members each of which can hold a substrate. The controller executes a relative movement between the first and second movable members such that, while one of the movable members is arranged opposed to the projection optical system, the other of the movable members comes close to the one of the movable members, and so as to move the close first and second movable members relative to the projection optical system such that the other of the movable members is arranged opposed to the projection optical system in place of the one of the movable members while substantially maintaining a liquid immersion region under the projection optical system. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293249 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING DEVICE - There is provided an exposure apparatus capable of forming a desirable device pattern by removing unnecessary liquid when performing exposure by projecting a pattern onto the substrate via a projection optical system and the liquid. The exposure device projects an image of the pattern onto the substrate via the projection optical system and the liquid so as to expose the substrate. The exposure device includes a liquid removing mechanism which removes the liquid remaining on a part arranged in the vicinity of the image plane of the projection optical system. | 10-02-2014 |
20140290041 | SUBSTRATE CARTRIDGE, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISPLAY ELEMENT - In order to provide a substrate cartridge, a substrate processing apparatus, a substrate processing system, a control apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a display element capable of preventing foreign objects from being attached to the substrate, there is provided a substrate cartridge including: a cartridge mainframe that has an opening which a substrate is carried in/out and accommodates the substrate through the opening; a mount portion that is provided in the cartridge mainframe and is detachably connected to an external connecting portion; and a blocking unit that blocks the opening depending on a connection state between the mount portion and an external connecting portion. | 10-02-2014 |
20140283385 | X-RAY DEVICE, X-RAY IRRADIATION METHOD, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR STRUCTURE - Provided is an x-ray device capable of suppressing reduction in detection precision. The X-ray device irradiates x-rays on an object and detects X-rays that pass through the object. The X-ray device comprises: an X-ray source that emits X-rays; a stage that holds the object; a detection device that detects at least some of the x-rays that have been emitted from the X-ray source and have passed through the object; a chamber member that forms an internal space wherein the X-ray source, the stage, and the detection device are arranged; and a partitioning section that separates the internal space into a first space wherein the X-ray source is arranged and a second space wherein the detection device is arranged. | 09-25-2014 |
20140268363 | ZOOM OPTICAL SYSTEM - Provided is a zoom optical system which includes, in order from an object, a first lens group having negative refractive power and other lens groups, and in which an interval between each lens group changes upon zooming, wherein the first lens group includes a first negative lens which is disposed closest to the object and has a diffractive optical element on an image side lens surface, and a positive lens disposed closer to the image than the first negative lens, and the glass material used for the positive lens satisfies the following conditions expressions: ν1p≦35 and Δ(θg, F)≧0.007, where ν1p denotes an Abbe number, based on the d-line, of the glass material used for the positive lens of the first lens group, and Δ(θg, F) denotes a deviation of the partial dispersion ratio of the glass material, which is used for the positive lens, from a standard line that connects a glass type A and a glass type B in a graph of which abscissa is an Abbe number νd based on the d-line, and the ordinate is the partial dispersion ratio (θg, F)=(ng−nF)/(nF−nC), with the Abbe number νd and the partial dispersion ratio (θg, F) of the glass type A and the glass type B being as follows: Glass type A: νd=60.49, (θg, F)=0.5436; glass type B: νd=36.26, (θg, F)=0.5828. | 09-18-2014 |
20140268089 | PATTERN FORMING APPARATUS, MARK DETECTING APPARATUS, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, PATTERN FORMING METHOD, EXPOSURE METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - While a wafer stage linearly moves in a Y-axis direction, a multipoint AF system detects surface position information of the wafer surface at a plurality of detection points that are set at a predetermined distance in an X-axis direction and also a plurality of alignment systems that are arrayed in a line along the X-axis direction detect each of marks at positions different from one another on the wafer. That is, detection of surface position information of the wafer surface at a plurality of detection points and detection of the marks at positions different from one another on the wafer are finished, only by the wafer stage (wafer) linearly passing through the array of the plurality of detection points of the multipoint AF system and the plurality of alignment systems, and therefore, the throughput can be improved. | 09-18-2014 |
20140262045 | Pressuring Module, Pressuring Apparatus, Substrate Bonding Apparatus, Substrate Bonding Method, and Bonded Substrate - A pressuring module includes a stage having a mounting surface on which an object to be pressured is mounted; a plurality of pressure detecting sections that detect a pressure applied on the mounting surface; and a pressure varying section that varies a pressure distribution across a plane of the mounting surface, by differing a pressing force against the object to be pressured between a periphery and a central portion of the mounting surface in a plane direction of the mounting surface based on the pressure detected by the plurality of pressure detecting sections. | 09-18-2014 |
20140253889 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING DEVICE - An exposure apparatus includes a projection system having a final element that projects exposure light to an upper surface of a substrate through liquid between the final element and the substrate. A liquid confinement member has a recovery outlet, via which the liquid is removed along with gas, arranged such that the upper surface of the substrate faces the recovery outlet, and the recovery outlet surrounds a path of the exposure light. The liquid confinement member confines the liquid to an area smaller than an area of the upper surface of the substrate by removing the liquid via the recovery outlet from a gap between the liquid confinement member and the upper surface of the substrate. A first support member supports the projection system, and a second support member supports the liquid confinement member, wherein the projection system is isolated from vibrations of the liquid confinement member. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253888 | LIQUID JET AND RECOVERY SYSTEM FOR IMMERSION LITHOGRAPHY - A liquid immersion lithography apparatus includes a projection system, an opening from which liquid is supplied to a space under the projection system, the opening being connectable to a liquid source via a flow passage to supply the liquid to the space and the opening being connectable to a vacuum source via the flow passage, and a holding member by which a substrate is held, the holding member being movable below the projection system and the opening. The substrate held by the holding member is exposed through the liquid that is supplied from the opening and that covers only a portion of an upper surface of the substrate. | 09-11-2014 |
20140247436 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An exposure apparatus is equipped with a fine movement stage that can hold a liquid with a projection optical system when the stage is at a position facing an outgoing surface of the projection optical system, and a blade that comes into proximity within a predetermined distance of the fine movement stage when the fine movement stage is holding the liquid with the projection optical system, and moves along with the fine movement stage while maintaining the proximity state, and then holds the liquid with the projection optical system after the movement. Accordingly, a plurality of stages will not have to be placed right under the projection optical system interchangeably, which can suppress an increase in footprint of the exposure apparatus. | 09-04-2014 |
20140240685 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING DEVICE - An exposure apparatus irradiates a substrate with light via a projection system and liquid, and includes a stage that moves below the projection system, and a light-receiving element having a light-receiving surface. An optical member provided on the stage has a first surface contacting the liquid when moved to face the projection system, and a second surface contacting a gas and transmitting light having come from the projection system via the liquid and the first surface. The optical member is configured such that at least a large-angle ray of the light, which has an angle with an optical axis of the projection system sufficiently large to undergo total reflection at an end surface of the projection system when the liquid is absent, travels from the projection system to the second surface without passing through gas. The second surface transmits the large-angle ray, which is received by the light-receiving surface. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240684 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING DEVICE - An exposure apparatus having a projection system with a final element projects exposure light to an upper surface of a substrate through liquid between the final element and the substrate upper surface. A liquid confinement member has a recovery outlet via which the liquid is removed along with gas, the recovery outlet being arranged such that the substrate upper surface faces the recovery outlet, the recovery outlet surrounding a path of the exposure light and the liquid confinement member confining the liquid to an area that is smaller than an area of the substrate upper surface by removing the liquid from a gap between the confinement member and the substrate upper surface. A first support member supports the projection system, and a second support member supports the liquid confinement member. An anti-vibration system limits vibrations from being transmitted from the second support member to the projection system. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240537 | ELECTRONIC CAMERA, IMAGE-PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE-PROCESSING PROGRAM - There are provided an imaging section imaging a subject and generating a plurality of images; an evaluating section performing evaluation on the plurality of images generated by the imaging section; a selecting section selecting, based on an evaluation result of the evaluating section, a part of images from among the plurality of images generated by the imaging section; a recognizing section performing scene recognition on a plurality of images selected by the selecting section; and a determining section determining, based on a recognition result of the recognizing section, reproduction order of the plurality of images subjected to the scene recognition. | 08-28-2014 |
20140239228 | CaF2 TRANSLUCENT CERAMICS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF CaF2 TRANSLUCENT CERAMICS | 08-28-2014 |
20140235508 | NUCLEIC ACID LINKER - A nucleic acid linker is for producing a complex of mRNA and a protein encoded by that mRNA, comprising one 3′-terminal region and two branched 5′-terminal regions, wherein the 3′-terminal region comprises a single-stranded polynucleotide segment able to hybridize with the sequence on the 3′-terminal side of the mRNA, and an arm segment that branches off from the single-stranded polynucleotide segment and has a linking segment with the protein on the terminal thereof, and one of the two 5′-terminal regions has a binding site with the 3′-terminal of the mRNA. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233936 | CAMERA ACCESSORY, CAMERA BODY AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A camera accessory is detachably mounted at a camera body that includes a first body contact point, a second body contact point, a third body contact point, a fourth body contact point and a fifth body contact point and detects disengagement of the camera accessory when the fifth body contact point sustains a signal level corresponding to a first truth value continuously over a length of time equal to or greater than a predetermined time length. In the camera accessory, the accessory-side communication control device executes control so as to ensure that the signal assuming a level corresponding to the first truth value is not continuously output from the fifth accessory contact point any longer than the predetermined time length while the operating voltage supply from the camera body is provided via the first accessory contact point. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233117 | LENS ASSEMBLY, LENS BARREL AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A lens assembly includes a first lens holder that holds a first lens, a first guiding shaft that guides the first lens holder in a parallel direction to an optical axis of the first lens, a first driver that drives the first lens holder in an axial direction of the first guiding shaft, a second lens holder that holds a second lens that is different from the first lens, and a second driver that drives the second lens holder in a direction of the optical axis. Here, the first guiding shaft, the second driver, and the first driver are arranged in the stated order in a circumferential direction of a circle that is centered on the optical axis. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233008 | ILLUMINATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, DEVICE PRODUCTION METHOD, AND LIGHT POLARIZATION UNIT - An illumination optical system which illuminates an illumination objective surface with a light from a light source. The illumination optical system includes a spatial light modulator which includes a plurality of optical elements arranged within a predetermined plane and controlled individually, and which forms a light intensity distribution in an illumination pupil of the illumination optical system; and a polarization unit which is arranged in a position optically conjugate with the predetermined plane, and which polarizes an incident light beam having a first and second partial light beams, coming into the polarization unit such that the first and second partial light beams have polarization states different from each other, and emits the polarized incident light beam as an outgoing light beam, wherein the polarization unit changes, in a cross section of the outgoing light beam, a ratio between a cross sectional areas of the first and second partial light beams. | 08-21-2014 |