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20100176277 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A solid-state image pickup element includes: (A) a light receiving/charge accumulating region formed in a semiconductor layer and formed by laminating M (where M≧2) light receiving/charge accumulating layers; (B) a charge outputting region formed in the semiconductor layer; (C) a depletion layer forming region formed of a part of the semiconductor layer, the part of the semiconductor layer being situated between the light receiving/charge accumulating region and the charge outputting region; and (D) a control electrode region for controlling a state of formation of a depletion layer in the depletion layer forming region, wherein the solid-state image pickup element further includes a light receiving/charge accumulating layer extending section extending from each light receiving/charge accumulating layer to the depletion layer forming region. | 07-15-2010 |
20100193914 | Semiconductor device, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus - Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including forming a transistor on a first surface of a device substrate, forming a hole in a second surface opposite to the first surface of the device substrate, and supplying hydrogen to a gate insulating film of the transistor from the second surface of the device substrate through the hole. | 08-05-2010 |
20100213354 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT AND DRIVING METHOD OF THE SOLID-STATE IMAGE ELEMENT - Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging element including: (A) a light reception/charge storage region formed in a semiconductor layer, the light reception/charge storage region including M light reception/charge storage layers stacked one on top of the other, where M≧2; (B) a charge output region formed in the semiconductor layer; (C) a conduction/non-conduction control region which includes a portion of the semiconductor layer located between the light reception/charge storage region and the charge output region; and (D) a conduction/non-conduction control electrode adapted to control the conduction or non-conduction state of the conduction/non-conduction control region, wherein mth potential control electrodes are provided between the mth and (m+1)th light reception/charge storage layers, where 1≦m≦(M−1), to control the potentials of the light reception/charge storage layers. | 08-26-2010 |
20110102648 | Imaging Apparatus and method, electronic device, and program - An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to image an image using an imaging device; an image obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of images equivalent to the time of dark, imaged by the imaging unit; a registering unit configured to register, with an image obtained by the image obtaining unit, the address and change amount of a pixel where the output value of the pixel changes so as to exceed a predetermined threshold; and a correcting unit configured to correct, when taking a pixel corresponding to an address registered by the registering unit as a processing object pixel, the pixel value of the processing object pixel based on comparison between difference of the output values of the processing object pixel and a peripheral pixel of the processing object pixel, and the change amount of the processing object pixel. | 05-05-2011 |
20150021578 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of laminated photoelectric conversion sections; a reading section configured of a semiconductor region formed inside a semiconductor substrate and reading electric charge that has been subjected to photoelectric conversion in the photoelectric conversion sections; a charge accumulation section accumulating the electric charge read by the reading section; and a light shielding structure shielding, from light, a portion other than the reading section and the photoelectric conversion sections. | 01-22-2015 |
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20090026696 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A sheet processing apparatus includes an intermediate stacking portion which temporarily stacks, thereon, a sheet conveyed thereto; a discharge portion which discharges sheet stacked on the intermediate stacking portion; an aligning member which is provided downstream of the discharge portion in a sheet conveying direction and has a sheet holding surface capable of holding the lower surfaces of the sheet and a sheet aligning surface capable of abutting against end portions of the sheet in the widthwise direction orthogonal to the sheet conveying direction, the aligning member being movable in the widthwise direction; a first stacking portion which is provided below the aligning member and stacks, thereon, a sheet discharged from the discharge portion; and a second stacking portion which is provided above the aligning member and stacks, thereon, a sheet conveyed thereto; wherein a standby position of the aligning member is at a position more inward than the outermost position in the widthwise direction, within the range through which the aligning member is movable. | 01-29-2009 |
20100314824 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND CONTROL UNIT FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming system including an image forming apparatus and a sheet feeding apparatus. The system includes: a first conveying unit conveying to the image forming apparatus a recording material; a second conveying unit conveying to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus the recording material; a detector detecting a recording material type while the second conveying unit halts conveying the recording material; a first controller, based on detection by the detector, determining a speed for conveying the recording material to the image forming unit, and conveying the recording material at the conveying speed; and a second controller controlling recording material conveying speeds of the first conveying unit. Before the recording material reaches the second conveying unit, the second controller maintains a first conveying speed, and after the recording material reaches the second convey unit, maintains a second conveying speed determined by the first control unit. | 12-16-2010 |
20110084442 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A sheet processing apparatus includes an intermediate stacking portion which temporarily stacks, thereon, a sheet conveyed thereto; a discharge portion which discharges sheet stacked on the intermediate stacking portion; an aligning member which is provided downstream of the discharge portion in a sheet conveying direction and has a sheet holding surface capable of holding the lower surfaces of the sheet and a sheet aligning surface capable of abutting against end portions of the sheet in the widthwise direction orthogonal to the sheet conveying direction, the aligning member being movable in the widthwise direction; a first stacking portion which is provided below the aligning member and stacks, thereon, a sheet discharged from the discharge portion; and a second stacking portion which is provided above the aligning member and stacks, thereon, a sheet conveyed thereto; wherein a standby position of the aligning member is at a position more inward than the outermost position in the widthwise direction, within the range through which the aligning member is movable. | 04-14-2011 |
20110116121 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - There is provided an image forming system that automatically discharges paper sheets other than poorly fed ones without making an emergency stop, even when poor paper feeding is caused due to a paper jam or the like. At paper feeding, information showing poor paper feeding is transmitted when the poor paper feeding is detected in supplying the paper sheets. At image forming, a determination is made whether the paper conveyance in forming the image is continued or stopped when an instruction, based on the information showing the poor paper feeding. At paper discharging, a determination is made whether the paper conveyance in discharging the paper sheets is continued or stopped when an instruction, based on the information showing the defective conveyance. | 05-19-2011 |
20110182646 | Method of Releasing Determination of Fully Loaded State in a Sheet Stacking Apparatus - A stacking unit accommodates sheets stacked on it. The stacking unit is capable of moving up and down within an operation range from a predetermined upper limit to a predetermined lower limit. A determination unit releases a determination of the fully loaded state if elapsed time from the time when the determination unit determines that the stacking unit has been fully loaded with sheets to the time when a sheet detection unit again detects an uppermost sheet of the stacked sheets as a result of the stacking unit being lifted up when the sheet detection unit can no longer detect the sheet after detection of the sheet exceeding a first threshold time preset in correspondence with the amount of curl imparted to the sheet. | 07-28-2011 |
20110274454 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus to which a paper handling unit is connected thereto is provided. The image forming apparatus detects the size of a sheet in a direction in which the sheet is conveyed for image formation. The image forming apparatus outputs sheet size mismatch information indicating that the size of the sheet does not match a predetermined size to the paper handling unit before a size detecting operation thereof has been completed detecting the trailing edge of the sheet is greater than the predetermined size. | 11-10-2011 |
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20090122141 | CAMERA MOUNTING STRUCTURE, CAMERA MOUNTING METHOD AND EXTERIOR PANEL COMPONENT OF A VEHICLE - A camera mounting structure for mounting an on-vehicle camera on a vehicle, in which the on-vehicle camera includes an imaging module having a lens and an imaging element, and in an exterior panel component making up an exterior of the vehicle, a bracket part for attaching the imaging module is molded integrally with the exterior panel component as a portion of the exterior panel component. | 05-14-2009 |
20090295985 | CAMERA DEVICE - The present invention provides a camera device including: an image pickup element; a substrate mounted with the image pickup element thereon; and a housing accommodating the image pickup element therein. The housing is provided with a plurality of support members which extend upright and to which an external edge portion of the substrate is stuck with an adhesive. The substrate is provided with an application area to which the adhesive is applied, at the external edge portion stuck with the support members. | 12-03-2009 |
20100231719 | Camera Mounting Structure, Camera Mounting Method and Exterior Panel Component of a Vehicle - A camera mounting structure for mounting an on-vehicle camera on a vehicle, in which the on-vehicle camera includes an imaging module having a lens and an imaging element, and in an exterior panel component making up an exterior of the vehicle, a bracket part for attaching the imaging module is molded integrally with the exterior panel component as a portion of the exterior panel component. | 09-16-2010 |
20110032416 | CAMERA APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a camera apparatus, including: a lens block having an image capturing lens provided therein; a substrate having an image pickup element mounted thereto; a housing for accommodating therein the lens block and the substrate; and a supporting block for supporting the substrate so that the image pickup element and the image capturing lens face each other by bonding thereto the substrate by using an adhesive agent, wherein the supporting block has a side surface making a right angle with an adhesion surface to which the substrate is bonded, and a bottom surface parallel with the adhesion surface on the adhesion surface, and a filling groove which is filled with the adhesive agent is formed in the supporting block. | 02-10-2011 |
20110199485 | Camera device - Disclosed herein is a camera device including: a housing having an opening; a lens exposed from the opening of the housing; a lens barrel for holding the lens, the lens barrel being fitted in the housing to expose the lens from the opening of the housing; a packing provided between the lens barrel and the housing for preventing the entry of a water flow passed through the opening; an imaging mechanism having an imaging device for detecting incident light transmitted through the lens; and a buffer portion configured to reduce the pressure of the water flow in a water flow path between the opening and the packing. | 08-18-2011 |
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20080267450 | Position Tracking Device, Position Tracking Method, Position Tracking Program and Mixed Reality Providing System - The present invention has a simpler structure than before and is designed to precisely detect the position of a real environment's target object on a screen. The present invention generates a special marker image MKZ including a plurality of areas whose brightness levels gradually change in X and Y directions, displays the special marker image MKZ on the screen of a liquid crystal display | 10-30-2008 |
20130300449 | Solar Power Generation System, Abnormality Detection Method, and Abnormality Detection System - In order to provide a system which detects and classifies abnormality in a solar battery even during power generation, an output voltage and an output current of the solar battery during power generation are detected, and a solar battery characteristic equation and a threshold value for detecting an abnormal state are calculated using the detected voltage value and current value and the measurement data of an external environment measurement unit. The kind of abnormal state of the solar battery is classified using the calculation result of the characteristic equation and the threshold value. | 11-14-2013 |
20130311121 | Method of Calculating Characteristics of Solar Cell and Solar Power Generation System - In order to provide a calculation method for reproducing solar cell characteristics with high accuracy by using data of a short-circuit current, an open-circuit voltage and the maximum power operation point of a solar cell in a temperature and a solar radiation intensity in a standard state, parameter values for determining characteristics in the standard state are calculated by using data of the short-circuit current, the open-circuit voltage and the maximum power operation point of the solar cell in the temperature and the solar radiation intensity in the standard state. Next, temperature coefficients of the open-circuit voltage and the reverse saturation current are calculated by using the calculated parameters, and a short-circuit current, an open-circuit voltage and the maximum power operation point at a given temperature are calculated. | 11-21-2013 |
20140058688 | Failure Diagnosis Method for Photovoltaic Power Generation System - A low-cost failure diagnosis method, without addition of a measuring unit and a communication unit, provided for a solar battery system, of calculating a working temperature and the number of failed solar battery modules in a solar battery array, by calculating a solar radiation amount while updating a predetermined coefficient as a ratio between a short-circuit current and a working current in accordance with state of the solar battery array and using measured data having the working current and working voltage measured with a detection unit. | 02-27-2014 |
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20140097927 | LAMINATED COIL COMPONENT - A laminated coil component includes a magnetic body part made of a Ni—Zn-based ferrite material and a coil conductor containing Cu as a main component, which is wound into a coil shape, and the coil conductor is embedded in the magnetic body part to form a component base. The component base is divided into a first region near the coil conductor and a second region other than the first region. The grain size ratio of the average crystal grain size of the magnetic body part in the first region to the average crystal grain size of the magnetic body part in the second region is 0.85 or less. The molar content of CuO in the ferrite raw material is set to 6 mol % or less, and firing is performed in a reducing atmosphere in which the oxygen partial pressure is an equilibrium oxygen partial pressure of Cu—Cu | 04-10-2014 |
20140176285 | FERRITE CERAMIC COMPOSITION, CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A ceramic electronic component includes a magnetic section composed of a ferrite material and a coil conductor containing Cu as its main constituent. The magnetic section is formed from Ni—Cu—Zn ferrite which falls within the range specified by (x, y)=A (25, 1), B (47, 1), C (47, 7.5), D (46, 7.5), E (46, 10), F (30, 10), G (30, 7.5), and H (25, 7.5) when the molar content x of Fe | 06-26-2014 |
20140176286 | FERRITE CERAMIC COMPOSITION, CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A coil conductor and a via electrode placed away from the coil conductor are embedded in a magnetic layer. The magnetic layer is sandwiched between a pair of non-magnetic layers. The coil conductor and the via electrode are formed from a conductive material containing Cu as its main constituent, and the magnetic layer is formed from Ni—Mn—Zn ferrite where the CuO molar content is 5 mol % or less, and (x, y) falls within the range of A (25, 1), B (47, 1), C (47, 7.5), D (45, 7.5), E (45, 10), F (35, 10), G (35, 7.5), and H (25, 7.5) when the molar content x of Fe | 06-26-2014 |
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20150322175 | LEGUME SEED POLYSACCHARIDE SUCCINIC ACID DERIVATIVE ESTER, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - The object of the present invention is to provide a dispersion stabilizer that can minimize coagulated precipitation of a protein under acidic conditions, especially in the pH range of around pH 5 which is closer to neutrality than the range around the isoelectric point of the protein. It is possible to stabilize dispersion of protein particles around pH 5, and thus prepare an acidic protein food, by using a legume seed polysaccharide esterified with a succinic acid derivative having a hydrocarbon chain bonded to the 2-position carbon of succinic acid or succinic acid. The hydrocarbon chain of the succinic acid derivative preferably has 2 to 18 carbon atoms, and is most preferably an octenyl group. The esterified legume seed polysaccharides also have high emulsifying ability. | 11-12-2015 |
20150342200 | Water Soluble Pea Polysaccharide-Containing Physical Property Improvement Agent for Wheat-Based Food - In the present invention, it has been an object to obtain a physical property improvement agent for improving the various physical properties of wheat-based food such as bread, wheat-flour baked sweets, and noodles. By using a water-soluble pea polysaccharide, it is possible to obtain a physical property-improving effect in wheat-based food such as bread, wheat-flour baked sweets, and noodles. In bread and wheat-flour baked sweets, while changes in the mouthfeel caused by aging of starch are suppressed, the workability is enhanced by improving the spreadability of the dough, furthermore, the volume after baking is increased, and mouthfeel with good crispness and meltability in the mouth is obtained. In noodles, it is possible to suppress aging when braised noodles are stored at room temperature or with refrigerating. | 12-03-2015 |