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20130177788 | NONAQUEOUS SECONDARY BATTERY - A nonaqueous secondary cell comprising: an electrode including a current collector that has a multi-layered structure in which an electrically conductive layer is formed on both sides of an insulating layer, and an active material layer formed on the current collector; a through-member configured from an electrically conductive material and passing through the current collector in the thickness direction; and a tab electrode electrically connected with the electrode; a plurality of the electrodes being stacked; and asperities being provided on the surface of the through-member. | 07-11-2013 |
20130293815 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal layer extending at least in a display region; first and second substrates affixed to each other so as to sandwich the liquid crystal layer therebetween; and a pair of polarization plates disposed to sandwich these substrates therebetween. The first substrate is provided with a pixel electrode corresponding to each of a plurality of pixels. The second substrate is provided with a counter electrode so as to face the pixel electrode. A first alignment film is disposed on the pixel electrode. A second alignment film is disposed on the counter electrode. The pixels each include a plurality of domains having different combinations of alignment directions of the first and second alignment films. The pixel electrode has a slit group along at least a part of an outline of the pixel electrode and in the vicinity of the outline. | 11-07-2013 |
20130321747 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer extending in a display region; and a TFT substrate and a counter substrate affixed to each other so as to sandwich the liquid crystal layer therebetween. The TFT substrate is provided with a pixel electrode corresponding to each of a plurality of pixels. The counter substrate is provided with a counter electrode. A first alignment film is disposed on the surface of the pixel electrode that faces the liquid crystal layer. A second alignment film is disposed on the surface of the counter electrode that faces the liquid crystal layer. The pixels each include a plurality of domains having different combinations of alignment directions of the first and second alignment films. A slit is provided in the counter electrode at least in a part of a region corresponding to a boundary between the pixels adjacent to each other. | 12-05-2013 |
20130329148 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - In a liquid crystal display apparatus, an angle of orientation of a first extension orientation of a first slit is not greater than an angle of orientation of a first director orientation, an angle of orientation of a second extension orientation of a second slit is not smaller than an angle of orientation of a second director orientation, and a difference between the angle of orientation of the second extension orientation and the angle of orientation of the second director orientation is greater than a difference between the angle of orientation of the first extension orientation and the angle of orientation of the first director orientation. | 12-12-2013 |
20130329175 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A liquid crystal display apparatus includes an electrode and a slit formation region provided in the electrode and extending in a direction of extension of a boundary line, a first alignment region and a third alignment region are formed such that liquid crystal molecules are aligned toward a first director orientation, a second alignment region and a fourth alignment region are formed such that liquid crystal molecules are aligned toward a second director orientation greater in an angle of orientation than the first director orientation, an angle of orientation of a first slit orientation is not greater than an angle of orientation of the first director orientation, and an angle of orientation of a second slit orientation is not smaller than an angle of orientation of the second director orientation. | 12-12-2013 |
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20110315661 | ETCHING APPARATUS, ANALYSIS APPARATUS, ETCHING TREATMENT METHOD, AND ETCHING TREATMENT PROGRAM - There is provided an etching apparatus in which, without setting the information of the substance and the chemical reaction, a small number of representative wavelengths can be selected from a waveform at a lot of wavelengths, and an analysis process of etching data which needs large man-hours can be eliminated to efficiently set the monitoring of the etching. The etching apparatus includes: a lot/wafer/step-depending OES-data searching/acquiring function | 12-29-2011 |
20120018094 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PLASMA PROCESSING METHOD - A plasma processing apparatus for applying an etching processing to a wafer by using at least two steps of the etching processing which operate with plasma formed within a pressure-reduced processing chamber, the wafer being located within the processing chamber inside a vacuum vessel, and having a mask on a silicon-composed substrate and a film structure, the film structure including processing-target films located under the mask, wherein the plasma processing apparatus is equipped with a function for processing another different wafer in such a manner that a processing condition at a precedent-stage step of the two steps of the etching processing in the processing of the different wafer is adjusted based on a result obtained by detecting a time which has elapsed until termination of a subsequent-stage step of the two steps of the etching processing. | 01-26-2012 |
20120303158 | VACUUM PROCESS DEVICE AND VACUUM PROCESS METHOD - An efficient method of controlling transportation in a linear tool type vacuum process device in a state that a length of time required for a process is not stable. For each process chamber, the number of unprocessed wafers that are in process or are being transported to the process chamber is counted, and in deciding a transport destination of a wafer, when the number of unprocessed wafers is equal to or larger than a charge limit amount, a transport destination of a wafer is decided excluding the process chamber. Also, a wafer holding mechanism on a transport path to a process chamber is reserved, and a transport destination of a processed member to be transported next is decided according to a status of reservation. | 11-29-2012 |
20120310403 | ETCHING APPARATUS, CONTROL SIMULATOR,AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - Based on a model for determining optical emission intensity values Y at wavelengths from actuator values X of an etching apparatus, X is calculated from Y to achieve preferable Run-to-Run control over Y. A relation between X and Y is defined as a control model (matrix model C | 12-06-2012 |
20130108400 | VACUUM PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF TRANSPORTING PROCESS SUBJECT MEMBER | 05-02-2013 |
20130173042 | SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT - Semiconductor manufacturing equipment includes: a controller controlling driving and processes of various parts of the semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and a sensor monitoring each physical amount in the semiconductor manufacturing equipment or a status of each chemical response amount; a database; and an arithmetic section executing: processing of reading out equipment data, calculating a correlation matrix between time points based on a plurality of pieces of signal data to be compared, calculating eigen values and eigen vectors from the correlation matrix, and calculating principal component scores by principal component analysis; processing of comparing magnitudes of the eigen values of the principal components, arranging the eigen values in descending order to display a list thereof; and processing of displaying a scatter diagram where the principal component scores of the respective signals are plotted in a feature space selecting the principal component corresponding to the eigen value having a contribution ratio. | 07-04-2013 |
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20140294555 | OPERATION METHOD FOR VACUUM PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method for operating a vacuum processing apparatus, the vacuum processing apparatus including: a plurality of cassette stands on which a cassette capable of housing a plurality of wafers therein can be placed; a plurality of vacuum processing vessels each having a processing chamber arranged therein, wherein the wafer is arranged and processed in the processing chamber; and at least one transport robot transporting the wafer on a transport path between either one of the plurality of cassettes and the plurality of vacuum processing vessels, the vacuum processing apparatus sequentially transporting in a predetermined transport order the plurality of wafers from either one of the plurality of cassettes to a predetermined one of the plurality of vacuum processing vessels and processing the plurality of wafers. The method includes a number determining step, a remaining-time determining step and a transport order skip step. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295583 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PLASMA PROCESSING METHOD - In a plasma processing method and apparatus for processing a film to be processed contained in a film structure preliminarily formed on an upper surface of a wafer mounted in a processing chamber, by using plasma, a residual film thickness at an arbitrary time is calculated using a result of comparing detective differential waveform pattern data with actual differential waveform pattern data. The detective differential waveform pattern data is produced by using two basic differential waveform pattern data which respectively use, as parameters, residual thicknesses of the films to be processed in film structures having underlying films with different thicknesses and the wavelengths of the interference light. The detective waveform pattern data being preliminarily prepared prior to processing of the wafer. Determination is made as to whether or not an object of the processing has been reached by using the residual film thickness. | 10-02-2014 |
20150021294 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OPERATIONAL METHOD THEREOF - A plasma processing apparatus includes: a detector configured to detect a change in an intensity of light emission from plasma formed inside a processing chamber; and a unit configured to adjust conditions for forming the plasma or processing a wafer arranged inside the processing chamber using an output from the detector, wherein the detector detects a signal of the intensity of light emission at plural time instants before an arbitrary time instant during processing, and wherein the adjusting unit removes the component of a temporal change of a long cycle of the intensity of light emission from this detected signal and detects the component of a short temporal change of the intensity of light emission, and adjusts the conditions for forming the plasma or processing a wafer arranged inside the processing chamber based on the short temporal change of the detected intensity of light emission. | 01-22-2015 |
20150024521 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PLASMA PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided a plasma processing apparatus which compares a plurality of patterns detected using an interference light intensity pattern using a wavelength from at least one preset film of the plurality of film layers as a parameter and an intensity pattern using a wavelength of light from the other film as a parameter and an light intensity pattern from inside the processing chamber which is detected during processing of the film to be processed; and compares a film thickness corresponding to one of the plurality of patterns having a minimum difference obtained by the comparison and a target film thickness; and determines that the thickness of the film to be processed reaches the target film thickness. | 01-22-2015 |
20150041060 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A plasma processing apparatus includes a plasma forming part, a putting stage on which a wafer is put, a bias power supply which supplies high-frequency power to the putting stage and a detection part which detects amounts of positive and negative currents flowing between the bias power supply and the putting stage and a ratio of the positive and negative current amounts, and the plasma processing apparatus adjusts formation of the plasma or the plasma processing condition of the wafer in accordance with the ratio. | 02-12-2015 |
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20110284871 | SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE - A silicon carbide substrate includes a base layer made of silicon carbide, an SiC layer made of single crystal silicon carbide, arranged on the base layer, and having a concentration of inevitable impurities lower than the concentration of inevitable impurities in the base layer, and a cover layer made of silicon carbide, formed on a main surface of the base layer at a side opposite to the SiC layer, and having a concentration of inevitable impurities lower than the concentration of inevitable impurities in the base layer. | 11-24-2011 |
20110284872 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method for manufacturing a silicon carbide substrate includes the steps of: preparing a base substrate made of silicon carbide, and a SiC substrate made of single-crystal silicon carbide; fabricating a stacked substrate by placing the SiC substrate on and in contact with a main surface of the base substrate; connecting the base substrate and the SiC substrate by heating the stacked substrate to allow the base substrate to have a temperature higher than that of the SiC substrate; and forming an epitaxial growth layer on an opposite main surface, to the SiC substrate, of the base substrate connected to the SiC substrate. | 11-24-2011 |
20110287603 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE - First and second supported portions each made of silicon carbide and a supporting portion made of silicon carbide are arranged such that the first and second supported portions and the supporting portion face each other and a gap is provided between the first and second supported portions. By sublimating and recrystallizing silicon carbide of the supporting portion, the supporting portion is connected to each of the first and second single-crystal substrates. On this occasion, a through hole is formed in the supporting portion so as to be connected to the gap. Accordingly, a path is formed which allows a fluid to pass through the gap and the through hole. By closing this path, the fluid can be prevented from being leaked through the silicon carbide substrate. | 11-24-2011 |
20110309376 | METHOD OF CLEANING SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR, SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR, AND SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of cleaning an SiC semiconductor capable of exhibiting an effect of cleaning an SiC semiconductor is provided. An SiC semiconductor and an SiC semiconductor device capable of achieving improved characteristics are provided. The method of cleaning an SiC semiconductor includes the steps of forming an oxide film on a surface of an SiC semiconductor (step S | 12-22-2011 |
20120149175 | METHOD OF CLEANING SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR - A method of cleaning a SiC semiconductor includes the steps of forming an oxide film at the surface of a SiC semiconductor, and removing the oxide film. At the step of forming an oxide film, an oxide film is formed using ozone water having a concentration greater than or equal to 30 ppm. The forming step preferably includes the step of heating at least one of the surface of the SiC semiconductor and the ozone water. Thus, there can be obtained a method of cleaning a SiC semiconductor that can exhibit cleaning effect on the SiC semiconductor. | 06-14-2012 |
20120161158 | COMBINED SUBSTRATE HAVING SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE - A first silicon carbide substrate has a first backside surface connected to a supporting portion, a first front-side surface opposite to the first backside surface, and a first side surface connecting the first backside surface and the first front-side surface to each other. A second silicon carbide substrate has a second backside surface connected to the supporting portion, a second front-side surface opposite to the second backside surface, and a second side surface connecting the second backside surface and the second front-side surface to each other and forming a gap between the first side surface and the second side surface. A closing portion closes the gap. Thereby, foreign matters can be prevented from remaining in a gap between a plurality of silicon carbide substrates provided in a combined substrate. | 06-28-2012 |
20120168774 | SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A silicon carbide substrate and a method for manufacturing the silicon carbide substrate are obtained, each of which achieves reduced manufacturing cost of semiconductor devices using the silicon carbide substrate. A method for manufacturing a SiC-combined substrate includes the steps of: preparing a plurality of single-crystal bodies each made of silicon carbide (SiC); forming a collected body; connecting the single-crystal bodies to each other; and slicing the collected body. In the step, the plurality of SiC single-crystal ingots are arranged with a silicon (Si) containing Si layer interposed therebetween, so as to form the collected body including the single-crystal bodies. In the step, adjacent SiC single-crystal ingots are connected to each other via at least a portion of the Si layer, the portion being formed into silicon carbide by heating the collected body. In step, the collected body in which the SiC single-crystal ingots are connected to each other is sliced. | 07-05-2012 |
20120208302 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - There is provided a method for manufacturing a SiC semiconductor device achieving improved performance. The method for manufacturing the SiC semiconductor device includes the following steps. That is, a SiC semiconductor is prepared which has a first surface having at least a portion into which impurities are implanted. By cleaning the first surface of the SiC semiconductor, a second surface is formed. On the second surface, a Si-containing film is formed. By oxidizing the Si-containing film, an oxide film constituting the SiC semiconductor device is formed. | 08-16-2012 |
20120208368 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of manufacturing an SiC semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a first oxide film on a first surface of an SiC semiconductor, removing the first oxide film, and forming a second oxide film constituting the SiC semiconductor device on a second surface exposed as a result of removal of the first oxide film in the SiC semiconductor. Between the step of removing the first oxide film and the step of forming a second oxide film, the SiC semiconductor is arranged in an atmosphere cut off from an ambient atmosphere. | 08-16-2012 |
20120214309 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF FABRICATING SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of fabricating a SiC semiconductor device includes the steps of preparing a silicon carbide semiconductor including a first surface having impurities implanted at least partially, forming a second surface by dry etching the first surface of the silicon carbide semiconductor using gas including hydrogen gas, and forming an oxide film constituting the silicon carbide semiconductor device on the second surface. | 08-23-2012 |
20120231615 | SEMICONDUCTOR THIN-FILM MANUFACTURING METHOD, SEMICONDUCTOR THIN-FILM MANUFACTURING APPARATUS, SUSCEPTOR, AND SUSCEPTOR HOLDER - Substrates are mounted on a plurality of susceptors respectively. The plurality of susceptors on which respective substrates are mounted are placed on a rotational mechanism so that the susceptors are vertically spaced at a predetermined interval. The rotational mechanism on which the plurality of susceptors are placed is rotated. The plurality of susceptors on which the substrates are mounted respectively are heated. Semiconductor thin-films are deposited by supplying a source gas to each of the susceptors that are heated while being rotated, the source gas having been heated while passing through gas flow paths of respective path lengths substantially equal to each other. | 09-13-2012 |
20120273800 | COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE HAVING SINGLE-CRYSTAL SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE - A first vertex of a first single-crystal silicon carbide substrate and a second vertex of a second single-crystal silicon carbide substrate abut each other such that a first side of the first single-crystal silicon carbide substrate and a second side of the second single-crystal silicon carbide substrate are aligned. In addition, at least a part of the first side and at least a part of the second side abut on a third side of a third single-crystal silicon carbide substrate. Thus, in manufacturing a semiconductor device including a composite substrate, process fluctuations caused by a gap between the single-crystal silicon carbide substrates can be suppressed. | 11-01-2012 |
20120276715 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COMBINED SUBSTRATE HAVING SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE - A connected substrate having a supporting portion and first and second silicon carbide substrates is prepared. The first silicon carbide substrate has a first backside surface connected to the supporting portion, a first front-side surface, and a first side surface connecting the first backside surface and the first front-side surface to each other. The second silicon carbide substrate has a second backside surface connected to the supporting portion, a second front-side surface, and a second side surface connecting the second backside surface and the second front-side surface to each other and forming a gap between the first side surface and the second side surface. A filling portion for filling the gap is formed. Then, the first and second front-side surfaces are polished. Then, the filling portion is removed. Then, a closing portion for closing the gap is formed. | 11-01-2012 |
20120292742 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A MOSFET includes a silicon carbide substrate, a buffer layer made of silicon carbide formed on the silicon carbide substrate, a drift layer made of silicon carbide of an n conductivity type formed on the buffer layer, a p type body region of a p conductivity type formed in the drift layer to include a main surface of the drift layer opposite to the buffer layer, a source contact electrode formed on the p type body region, and a drain electrode formed on a main surface of the silicon carbide substrate opposite to the buffer layer. A current path region having an impurity concentration higher than that of another region in the drift layer is formed in a region in the drift layer sandwiched between the buffer layer and the body region. | 11-22-2012 |
20130109110 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | 05-02-2013 |
20140252376 | SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method for manufacturing a silicon carbide substrate includes the following steps. A silicon carbide single-crystal substrate is prepared. A silicon carbide epitaxial layer is formed in contact with the silicon carbide single-crystal substrate. A silicon layer is formed in contact with a second surface of the silicon carbide epitaxial layer opposite to a first surface thereof that makes contact with the silicon carbide single-crystal substrate. Accordingly, there are provided a silicon carbide substrate, a method for manufacturing the silicon carbide substrate, and a method for manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device so as to achieve prevention of contamination of a silicon carbide epitaxial layer in a simple manner. | 09-11-2014 |
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20090043157 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus includes a display unit that displays images contained in a plurality of image groups inside a subject picked up by a plurality of imaging devices, and a control unit that extracts a related image related to a currently displayed image currently displayed in the display unit from the plurality of image groups to make the display unit display the related image extracted. | 02-12-2009 |
20090167908 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image display system has a capsule endoscope for capturing an in-vivo image of a subject, a receiving device for receiving the in-vivo image from the capsule endoscope, and an image display apparatus for displaying a group of in-vivo images of the subject. The capsule endoscope has an imaging unit having a black region which optical rays do not reach in an effective pixel region contributing to image capture. By the imaging unit, an in-vivo image including the signal level of the black region is detected. The receiving device receives an image signal of the in-vivo image. The image display apparatus obtains an in-vivo image group from the receiving device. The image display apparatus does not display an in-vivo image in the in-vivo image group determined as an image influenced by fluctuations in the power source voltage but displays a stable in-vivo image which is not influenced by fluctuations in the power source voltage. | 07-02-2009 |
20090171149 | CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE - A capsule endoscope includes a capsule casing and interior components housed therein whose total specific gravity is set such that the capsule casing floats in liquid introduced into a subject. The capsule endoscope also includes a gravity center position setting unit that sets a position of center of gravity of the capsule casing at a decentered position so that the capsule casing is stabilized in the liquid introduced into the subject without rotating except for rotation about an axis in a direction of the center of gravity; and an imager that takes an in-vivo image in a body cavity with an imaging field being set so that a surface of the liquid is out of view when the capsule casing floats in the liquid introduced into the subject in a stabilized posture. | 07-02-2009 |
20090198101 | CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE - A capsule endoscope includes a capsule body to be introduced into a subject; and a center-of-gravity setting unit for setting a center of gravity so as to maintain a posture of the capsule body relative to a direction of gravity constant. The capsule endoscope also includes an imaging unit arranged in the capsule body such that an imaging field having an optical axis in an oblique direction pointing upward from a horizontal direction is formed with a posture of the capsule body maintained constant relative to the direction of gravity, for imaging a body cavity image. | 08-06-2009 |
20120238810 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An image display apparatus includes: a storage unit storing in-vivo image data and information associated with the in-vivo image data and related to a position of a capsule endoscope in a subject; an image processing unit performing image processing on the in-vivo image data stored in the storage unit; a display unit displaying an in-vivo image based on the in-vivo image data image-processed in the image processing unit; a position estimating unit estimating an intra-subject position in which an in-vivo image is captured, based on the position-related information; a control unit performing image processing in the image processing unit and position estimation processing in the position estimating unit in parallel; and a reporting unit reporting information indicating that a radiogram interpretation is possible, when image processing in the image processing unit for all the in-vivo image data is completed while processing in the position estimating unit is not completed. | 09-20-2012 |
20120242813 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores data of the in-vivo images and information which is associated with the data of the in-vivo images and related to a position of a capsule endoscope in an inside of a subject; a positional information obtaining unit that obtains positional information of the capsule endoscope in capturing the in-vivo images based on the information related to the position; and a sequence changing unit that changes a sorting sequence of the in-vivo images based on the positional information obtained by the positional information obtaining unit. | 09-27-2012 |
20120265015 | BODY-INSERTABLE DEVICE SYSTEM AND IN-VIVO OBSERVATION METHOD - An object of the present invention is to actively control at least one of the position and direction of the imaging field in a subject and to observe a desired observed region in the subject certainly in a short period of time. A body-insertable device system according to the present invention includes a capsule endoscope | 10-18-2012 |
20120274743 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An image display device includes: a memory unit that stores internal body image data acquired via a receiver from a capsule endoscope taking internal body image of a subject and information that is associated with the internal body image data and related to a position of the capsule endoscope within the subject; a position information acquisition unit that performs a position estimation process based on the information related to the position to acquire position information of the capsule endoscope at imaging each of the internal body images; a preferential image determination unit that determines whether each of the internal body images meets a predetermined condition; and a preferential process control unit that controls the position information acquisition unit to perform the position estimation process preferentially on the internal body image determined to meet the predetermined condition by the preferential image determination unit. | 11-01-2012 |
20120281078 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An image display apparatus includes an image processing unit; a position estimating unit; a display unit; a processing time estimating unit; and a processing setting unit for instructing the image processing unit and/or the position estimating unit to execute processing, wherein the display unit displays selection content selected in a selection region as well as a processing time confirmation region having a prediction processing time display field for displaying a prediction processing time predicted by the processing time estimating unit; and when an input receiving unit receives an input of an instruction for determining the selection content displayed on the display unit and the prediction processing time, the processing setting unit instructs the image processing unit and/or the position estimating unit to execute the determined processing. | 11-08-2012 |
20140296634 | BODY-INSERTABLE DEVICE SYSTEM AND IN-VIVO OBSERVATION METHOD - An object of the present invention is to actively control at least one of the position and direction of the imaging field in a subject and to observe a desired observed region in the subject certainly in a short period of time. A body-insertable device system according to the present invention includes a capsule endoscope | 10-02-2014 |
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20090273741 | OPTICAL MATERIAL HAVING A COLORED OPTICALLY ANISOTROPIC LAYER - An optical material including a colored optically anisotropic layer, the colored optically anisotropic layer having at least one maximum absorption wavelength with a nonpolarized light transmittance of 30 percent or lower in a wavelength range of 430 to 700 nm, wherein the absorbance Amax at the polarization of maximum absorbance and the absorbance Amin at the polarization of minimum absorbance of the colored optically anisotropic layer satisfy the following relation at the maximum absorption wavelength: 1.0≦Amax/Amin≦1.4, and the in-plane retardation of the colored optically anisotropic layer is greater than or equal to 10 nm and less than 1,000 nm, which can be employed as a material for forming a color filter having optical compensation capability. | 11-05-2009 |
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20100302636 | VIEWER AND KIT FOR AUTHENTICATING BIREFRINGENT PATTERN, AUTHENTICITY-VERIFYING MEDIUM AND METHOD OF VERIFYING AUTHENTICITY - A viewer for authenticating a birefringent pattern having at least two regions having a different birefringence from each other, wherein the viewer contains a polarizing plate and at least one optically anisotropic layer laminated on the polarizing plate, a front retardation of the at least one optically anisotropic layer is 5 nm or more and the total of the front retardation of the at least one optically anisotropic layer and a maximum value of front retardation of the birefringent pattern is greater than λ/2. | 12-02-2010 |
20110234946 | TRANSPARENT PRODUCT THAT GIVES IMAGE ONLY AT ONE SIDE - A transparent product that gives an image only at one side, which can be used for an advertisement on the window or the like, which is a product that has a semi-transmissive-half-reflective layer having transmittance of 30% or higher and a reflectance of 30% or higher, a birefringent layer which is a patterned optically anisotropic layer having two or more regions of different birefringence in the form of a pattern or a driven-type optically anisotropic layer containing a liquid-crystal compound driven by voltage application to control the optical anisotropy, and a polarizing layer in this order and does not have, at the opposite side of the polarizing layer with respect to the birefringent layer, a polarizing layer, is provided. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234969 | PATTERNED BIREFRINGENT PRODUCT - A product comprising a patterned optically anisotropic layer having two or more regions of different birefringence in the form of a pattern, which further comprises a semi-transmissive-half-reflective layer having a transmittance of 30% or higher and a reflectance of 30% or higher is provided. The product permits visualization of a latent image in the product through a polarizing plate as well as visualization of the information on the side opposite to the side to be viewed from. | 09-29-2011 |
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20120086579 | COMMUNICATION SUPPORT DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION SUPPORT METHOD - It is provided a communication support device, which analyzes communications among a plurality of persons who belong to an organization, comprising a recording module for storing data that indicates the communications among the plurality of persons, a network constructing module for constructing a network structure of the plurality of persons from the data that indicates the communications, a improvement candidate determining module for identifying a first person whose communication is to be improved from the data that indicates the communications, and a connection candidate determining module for identifying a second person and a third person who can help increase triangle structures around the identified first person in the network structure, based on the network structure. The communication support device outputs display data for prompting the second person and the third person to communicate with each other. | 04-12-2012 |
20120092379 | SENSING DATA DISPLAY APPARATUS AND SENSING DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - It is provided a sensing data display apparatus which displays a sensing data with regard to a human, the sensing data display apparatus comprising: a receiving module for receiving a data indicating a physical amount detected by a sensor terminal mounted by the human; a sensing data storing module for storing the data indicating the physical amount; an information creating module for creating a piece of information related to the sensor terminal from the data stored to the sensing data storing module; a display module for displaying the piece of information; and a viewer detecting module for detecting a viewer who locates at a vicinity of the sensing display apparatus. The display module displays the piece of information related to a piece of information of the viewer detected by the viewer detecting module. | 04-19-2012 |
20120191413 | SENSOR INFORMATION ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND ANALYSIS SERVER - A desired number of a data transmitted from a sensor terminal of transmitting the data subjected to sensing within a predetermined time period is previously determined. An analysis server calculates an acquiring rate of a data used in a batch processing on the basis of the desired number of the data and a number of an effective data which is actually received from the plural sensor terminals within the previously determined time period. In a case where there is a variation in the acquiring rate of the data per unit time, the analysis server carries out the batch processing by using the data from the sensor terminal. | 07-26-2012 |
20130053086 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT SERVER AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system including plural terminals, a base station to communicate with the terminals, and a management server coupled via a network to the base station, in which each terminal includes a behavioral information sensor to acquire behavioral information on the person wearing the terminal, and the management server retains the predefined relations among the persons within the organization, receives and retains the behavioral information from each terminal, calculates the behavioral characteristic quantity showing behavioral characteristics of each person relative to other persons based on the behavioral information, sums the calculated behavioral characteristic quantities for each of the defined relations between the person and the other persons, and when information showing changes in the still non-implemented defined relations is acquired, estimates the behavioral characteristic quantity of the person after changing the defined relation according to the acquired information, based on the acquired information and the behavioral characteristic quantity. | 02-28-2013 |
20130132480 | Event Data Processing Apparatus - An event data processing apparatus calculates a meeting person number difference which is a difference in the number of meeting persons between a first number of meeting persons at a first time and a second number of meeting persons at a second time, determines that a continuous communication is conducted between the first time and the second time if the meeting person number difference is equal to or smaller than a meeting person number threshold value which is a predetermined threshold value, and records persons included in the first number of meeting persons and the second number of meeting persons, the first time, and the second time in association with event identifiers for identifying events in a recording module. | 05-23-2013 |
20130197678 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, SERVER, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - The present disclosures identify of which group the environmental conditions have problems and waste, and enable effective energy management in locations such as schools and businesses where a plurality of people are in a plurality of spaces such as rooms, floors, and buildings. Terminals each worn by a plurality of users who constitute an organization acquire using sensors—and transit to a server—environmental information such as temperature, humidity, and illumination. The server tabulates the environmental information, calculates the environmental information of each group that the plural users constitute, and presents the environmental information along with the name and responsible party of the group. | 08-01-2013 |
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20080215970 | INTERACTION DATA DISPLAY APPARATUS, PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING THE INTERACTION DATA - Disclosed herewith is a system for keeping sensing of mass data of members of an organization with respect to states of their meeting and activities and analyzing and evaluating their interactions according to those sensor data. Interaction data includes first information denoting whether or not a terminal unit has faced a different terminal unit and second information denoting a state of the terminal unit and excluding information denoting positions of the first information and the terminal unit. An interaction data display apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving interaction data from the terminal unit and a display unit for displaying the received interaction data. The display unit displays the first and second information items included in the interaction data received by the receiving unit so as to be related to each other according to times at which those first and second information items are obtained respectively. | 09-04-2008 |
20080297373 | Sensor node - There is disclosed a sensor node capable of transmitting and receiving a large amount of data or data desired to be reliable without missing data, while preventing battery exhaustion and unnecessary compression of the transmission bandwidth. A name-tag type sensor node includes a detector for detecting connection of an external power supply. When the detector detects that the external power is supplied, the name-tag type sensor node transmits and receives a large amount of data, such as bulk transmission data, at an increased frequency by means of a data selector, a communication timing controller, and a wireless communication controller. Alternatively, the name-tag type sensor node transmits and receives the data desired to be reliable, such as rewriting data of firmware. | 12-04-2008 |
20090006158 | VISUALIZATION SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION - To provide a visualization method for analyzing the condition of an organization, the condition of a sub-organization, and the condition of an individual, with the face-to-face contact communication between members belonging to an organization being used as a cross section. A sensor-net system comprises a plurality of terminals and a processing unit that processes data sent from the plurality of terminals, wherein the each terminal comprises: a sensor for detecting a physical quantity; and a data sender unit that sends data indicative of the physical quantity detected by the sensor, and wherein based on the data sent from a first terminal, the processing unit plots this data on a coordinate plane consisting of two axes, in which an intensity of a relation, which a first person equipped with the first terminal has with other person, is assigned to one axis and a diversity of the relation is assigned to the other axis. | 01-01-2009 |
20090198475 | Analysis system and analysis server - An analysis sever capable of performing analysis among a large amount of sensor data in order to obtain an analysis result that a reader desires and outputting the result instantaneously. The analysis server rearranges the sensor data acquired from a sensor node into time series data. The analysis is performed separately for time trigger analysis (D) and for event trigger analysis (F) depending on analysis contents. In the time trigger analysis (D), analysis processing that is basically needed when visualizing a state of an organization is performed. In the event trigger analysis (F), an analysis result obtained by the time trigger analysis (D) is processed using the reader's desired information and is outputted. | 08-06-2009 |
20100274639 | Organization Evaluation Apparatus and Organization Evaluation System - Provided is an organization evaluation device, including: a reception unit for receiving data indicating a physical quantity detected by a sensor of a terminal worn by each of a plurality of persons; a personal index calculation module for calculating, from at least one of the data indicating the physical quantity and a business index of each of the plurality of persons, a personal index of each of the plurality of persons; a weight coefficient calculation module for calculating a weight coefficient indicating a degree of involvement of each of the plurality of persons in the first organization from the data indicating the physical quantity; and an organization index calculation module for calculating, by obtaining a weighted average of a plurality of the personal indices using the weight coefficient, an organization index of the first organization. | 10-28-2010 |
20110099054 | HUMAN BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS SYSTEM - In an organization dynamics analysis service using a sensor, organization dynamics information is understandably provided to a lot of members on a customer side without receiving private information such as an individual name from the customer. Therefore, a sensor data associated with an ID is received from the customer site, and organization analysis is performed on a service provider side, and then, an organization analysis data based on the ID is fed back to the customer site. When the customer browses the organization analysis data, the ID is converted into the private information in a service gateway installed on the customer site in accordance with a conversion table for correspondence of the ID previously specified on the customer side and the private information (individual name), and is shown to the customer as the understandable information. | 04-28-2011 |
20110295655 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A terminal includes a sensor for detecting a physical quantity and a data transmitting unit for transmitting data representing the physical quantity to a processing device. An input/output device includes an input unit for receiving an input of data representing a productivity relating to the person wearing the terminal and a data transmitting unit for transmitting the data representing the productivity to the processing device. The processing device includes a feature value extracting unit for extracting a feature value from the data representing the physical quantity, a conflict calculating unit for determining items of data bringing about conflict from the data representing the productivity, and a coefficient-of-influence calculating unit for calculating a degree of the correlation between the feature value and the items of the data bringing about conflict. | 12-01-2011 |
20120139750 | SENSOR NODE - There is disclosed a sensor node capable of transmitting and receiving a large amount of data or data desired to be reliable without missing data, while preventing battery exhaustion and unnecessary compression of the transmission bandwidth. A name-tag type sensor node includes a detector for detecting connection of an external power supply. When the detector detects that the external power is supplied, the name-tag type sensor node transmits and receives a large amount of data, such as bulk transmission data, at an increased frequency by means of a data selector, a communication timing controller, and a wireless communication controller. Alternatively, the name-tag type sensor node transmits and receives the data desired to be reliable, such as rewriting data of firmware. | 06-07-2012 |
20120158464 | VISUALIZATION SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION - To provide a visualization method for analyzing the condition of an organization, the condition of a sub-organization, and the condition of an individual, with the face-to-face contact communication between members belonging to an organization being used as a cross section. A sensor-net system comprises a plurality of terminals and a processing unit that processes data sent from the plurality of terminals, wherein the each terminal comprises: a sensor for detecting a physical quantity; and a data sender unit that sends data indicative of the physical quantity detected by the sensor, and wherein based on the data sent from a first terminal, the processing unit plots this data on a coordinate plane consisting of two axes, in which an intensity of a relation, which a first person equipped with the first terminal has with other person, is assigned to one axis and a diversity of the relation is assigned to the other axis. | 06-21-2012 |
20120185806 | INTERACTION DATA DISPLAY APPARATUS, PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING THE INTERACTION DATA - Disclosed herein is a system for keeping sensing of mass data of members of an organization with respect to states of their meeting and activities and analyzing and evaluating their interactions according to those sensor data. Interaction data includes first information denoting whether or not a terminal unit has faced a different terminal unit and second information denoting a state of the terminal unit and excluding information denoting positions of the terminal unit and the first information. An interaction data display apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving interaction data from the terminal unit and a display unit for displaying the received interaction data. The display unit displays the first and second information items included in the interaction data received by the receiving unit so as to be related to each other according to times at which those first and second information items are obtained respectively. | 07-19-2012 |
20130297260 | ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND ANALYSIS SERVER - An analysis sever capable of performing analysis among a large amount of sensor data in order to obtain an analysis result that a reader desires and outputting the result instantaneously. The analysis server rearranges the sensor data acquired from a sensor node into time series data. The analysis is performed separately for time trigger analysis (D) and for event trigger analysis (F) depending on analysis contents. In the time trigger analysis (D), analysis processing that is basically needed when visualizing a state of an organization is performed. In the event trigger analysis (F), an analysis result obtained by the time trigger analysis (D) is processed using the reader's desired information and is outputted. | 11-07-2013 |
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20100270292 | COOKER - A cooker includes: a heating chamber on which a first object to be heated is placed; a two-stage cooking dedicated member on which a second object to be heated is placed; an upper heat source provided on an upper side of the heating chamber, and a lower heat source provided on a lower side of the heating chamber and including at least a high-frequency heat source; an operation unit configured to receive an input of information on a heating treatment; and a control unit configured to individually control the upper heat source and the lower heat source, based on the information on the heating treatment. The two-stage cooking dedicated member can hold the second object to be heated and can supply high-frequency waves supplied from the lower heat source as the high-frequency heat source to an upper side of the two-stage cooking dedicated member. | 10-28-2010 |
20100276417 | COOKER - A cooker includes: a heating chamber on which a first object to be heated is placed; a heating plate on which a second object to be heated is placed; an upper heat source provided on an upper side of the heating chamber, and a lower heat source provided on a lower side of the heating chamber and including at least a high-frequency heat source; an operation unit configured to receive an input of information on a heating treatment; and a control unit configured to individually control the upper heat source and the lower heat source, based on the information on the heating treatment. The cooker further includes a reflecting portion provided below the heating plate and configured to reflect leftwards and rightwards high-frequency waves supplied from the high-frequency heat source. | 11-04-2010 |
20100282742 | COOKER - A cooker includes: a heating chamber on which a first object to be heated is placed; a heating plate on which a second object to be heated is placed; an upper heat source provided on an upper side of the heating chamber, and a lower heat source provided on a lower side of the heating chamber and including at least a high-frequency heat source; an operation unit configured to receive an input of information on a heating treatment; and a control unit configured to individually control the upper heat source and the lower heat source, based on the information on the heating treatment. The lower a mounting position of the heating plate becomes, the more high-frequency waves supplied to a heating chamber to a lower side of the heating plate from the high-frequency heat source are supplied to an upper side of the heating plate. | 11-11-2010 |
20100288756 | COOKER - A cooker includes a heating chamber, a detachable heating pan, a high-frequency wave supply unit which generates microwaves, an antennas which radiates the microwaves generated by the high-frequency wave supply unit, and a control unit which controls heating treatment of the objects to be heated. The control unit controls the antenna so as to switch a microwave radiation control for the object to be heated such that the microwave radiation control becomes different for a case in which at least one object to be heated is placed on a placing table used also as a bottom surface of the heating chamber and for a case at least one object to be heated is placed on each of the placing table used also as the bottom surface of the heating chamber and the heating pan, and stops operation after the heating of the objects to be heated is completed. | 11-18-2010 |
20100301039 | COOKER - A cooking device includes a heating chamber, a heating pan, a high-frequency wave supply unit which generates microwaves, an antenna which radiates the microwaves generated by the high-frequency wave supply unit, an operation unit which receives information on heating treatment of an object to be heated, and a control unit which controls the heating treatment of the object to be heated on the basis of the information on the heating treatment obtained from the operation unit. The control unit controls the orientation of the portion of the antenna which has high radiation directivity on the basis of the information, which is received from the operation unit, on the heating treatment of a first object to be heated placed on a placing table used also as a bottom surface of the heating chamber and a second object to be heated placed on the heating pan. | 12-02-2010 |
20110198344 | COOKER - A cooker of the invention includes: a heating chamber; a detachable heating pan; a high-frequency wave supply unit which generates microwaves; an antenna which radiates the microwaves generated by the high-frequency wave supply unit; a heat supply unit which heats an object placed on the heating pan by heat radiation; and a control unit which controls heating treatment of the objects to be heated. When a first object to be heated is placed on a placing table used also as a bottom surface of the heating chamber, and a second object to be heated is placed on the heating pan, the control unit controls the second object to be heated so as to be heated by the heat supply unit after subjecting at least the first object to be heated to the microwave radiation, and stops operation after heating of the objects to be heated is completed. | 08-18-2011 |
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20100248338 | CELL TREATMENT DEVICE, CELL TREATMENT CARTRIDGE AND BODY FLUID TREATMENT SYSTEM - A cell treatment device which allows cell dispersion liquid including cancer cells to pass therethrough to cause at least the cancer cells to be subjected to at least one of a physical action, a chemical action, and a biologically activating action, includes: a slit member having a first surface and a second surface and including a through hole having a slit shape penetrating from the first surface to the second surface and extending in one direction, the through hole having a tapered portion, wherein the width of a cross section of the tapered portion orthogonal in the one direction reduces from the first surface toward the second surface side, and is smaller than an average diameter of the cancer cells at an end on the second surfaces side, and the cell dispersion liquid is allowed to pass from the first surface side through the through hole to the second surface side. | 09-30-2010 |
20100248358 | CELL SEPARATING APPARATUS AND CELL SEPARATING METHOD - A cancer cell separating apparatus includes: a flow channel including an antibody fixation area having antibodies which bind specifically to cancer cells fixed thereon, wherein the cancer cells and non-cancer cells are separated using a difference in velocity of movement between the cancer cells and the non-cancer cells in cell slurry introduced into the flow channel. | 09-30-2010 |
20120125833 | FINE PARTICLE SEPARATOR - A fine particle separator includes a channel having an inlet; a chamber; a filter that is in communication with the channel and the chamber; and a piezoelectric element that vibrates the filter. The piezoelectric element may be provided on the channel forming member, and may vibrate the filter via the channel forming member. The channel may include an outlet. With the piezoelectric element directly or indirectly vibrating the filter, particles or a solid phase can be suppressed from adhering to the filter, and from closing the through holes of the filter. As a result, clogging can be reduced. | 05-24-2012 |
20130095564 | CELL SEPARATING APPARATUS AND CELL SEPARATING METHOD - A cancer cell separating apparatus includes: a flow channel including an antibody fixation area having antibodies which bind specifically to cancer cells fixed thereon, wherein the cancer cells and non-cancer cells are separated using a difference in velocity of movement between the cancer cells and the non-cancer cells in cell slurry introduced into the flow channel. | 04-18-2013 |
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20090015622 | Liquid property detection device, liquid container, image forming device, and liquid property detection method - A liquid property detection device includes: an electromotive force obtaining unit that obtains an electromotive force which is generated between two electrodes in a liquid container, the two electrodes formed by metals having respectively different ionization tendencies, and the liquid container containing a liquid so that the liquid is in contact with the two electrodes; a storage unit that stores a table showing correspondence between a property of the liquid contained in the liquid container and the electromotive force; a property determination unit that determines the property of the liquid contained in the liquid container on the basis of the electromotive force obtained by the electromotive force obtaining unit and the table stored in the storage unit; and an output unit that outputs information corresponding to the property determined by the property determination unit. | 01-15-2009 |
20130264268 | SEPARATOR - A separator fractionates a dispersion of cells including cells having phagocytic activity corresponding to a size of the cells to obtain a dispersion in which the content of the cells having phagocytic activity is higher than that of the dispersion, and includes a filter, at least part of the filter having a hydrophilic surface as a result of being covered with at least one of a self-assembled monolayer that includes an alkanethiol having a nonionic hydrophilic group that is formed on a gold thin film via a sulfur-gold bond, and a homopolymer or a copolymer of an ester of (meth)acrylic acid and at least some of hydrophilic groups of phospholipids that form a biomembrane. The separator is thus configured so that clogging of the filter is suppressed, and the separation efficiency is improved. | 10-10-2013 |
20130264271 | BLOOD CELL SEPARATOR - A blood cell separator includes a receiving container that includes an opening and a bottom surface, a tubular collection container that has a first opening, a second opening that is opposite to the first opening, and a filter that closes the second opening, and a vibration mechanism that vibrates the receiving container, at least part of the collection container being placed in the receiving container in a state in which the bottom surface of the receiving container faces the filter. The blood cell separator is thus configured so that clogging of the filter is suppressed, and the separation efficiency is improved. | 10-10-2013 |