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| 20080309793 | IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTINUOUS SHOOTING CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - Herein disclosed is an imaging apparatus, carrying out a step of calculating an exposure value based on image data obtained by the imaging section, a step of computing a shutter speed by mean of, for example, a program AE control in accordance with the exposure value calculated in the calculation step; a step of determining, in accordance with the shutter speed computed in the computation step, a continuous shooting speed indicative of the number of photographs per unit time; and a step of driving the imaging section so that a photographing operation is carried out with the continuous shooting speed thus determined. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090066803 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS PERFORMING AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHING PROCESSING, IMAGE PICKUP METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH PROGRAM THEREOF - Disclosed is an image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup section to pick up a subject image; and a central processing section to perform processing of arbitrarily setting at least one automatic photographing condition among a plurality of kinds of automatic photographing conditions, judging whether “the set automatic photographing condition” is satisfied or not, and instructing the image pickup section to pick up a recording subject image when “the set automatic photographing condition” is judged to be satisfied. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090102962 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SENSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM WHICH RECORDS PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD - Photographing at a fixed focus is executed by quickly canceling the autofocus without any labor for mode switching or the like. An image sensing apparatus includes a photographing unit which has an autofocus function and photographs an object image, a key input unit including a shutter key which has two operation strokes and designates autofocus and autoexposure by operation of the first stroke and photographing by operation of the second stroke, and a focus control unit which automatically sets a correct exposure value in the photographing unit, detects predetermined operation states of the first and second strokes designated by the shutter key, and switches and selects, on the basis of the detection result, whether to operate the autofocus function or set a fixed-focus position at which a predetermined depth of field is obtained. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20110080412 | DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING CUTTING SIMULATION, METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CUTTING SIMULATION, AND PROGRAM FOR DISPLAYING CUTTING SIMULATION - In order to reduce the amount of computation required for ray tracing and facilitate simulating of changes in workpiece shape even on an inexpensive, low-performance computer, a device for displaying a cutting simulation includes: a rendered workpiece image update section for updating by ray tracing a portion of a rendered workpiece image buffer and a rendered workpiece depth buffer, the portion being associated with a rendering region corresponding to a change in the shape of the workpiece; a rendered tool image creation section for rendering a tool image by ray tracing for the current tool rendering region; and an image transfer section for transferring a partial image of the previous tool rendering region and the current workpiece rendering region to be updated from the rendered workpiece image buffer to a display frame buffer as well as transferring the current tool rendering image to the display frame buffer. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110228129 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS PERFORMING AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHING PROCESSING, IMAGE PICKUP METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH PROGRAM THEREOF - Disclosed is an image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup section to pick up a subject image; and a central processing section to perform processing of arbitrarily setting at least one automatic photographing condition among a plurality of kinds of automatic photographing conditions, judging whether “the set automatic photographing condition” is satisfied or not, and instructing the image pickup section to pick up a recording subject image when “the set automatic photographing condition” is judged to be satisfied. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110267249 | WAVEGUIDE/PLANAR LINE CONVERTER - A waveguide/planar line converter ( | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110295576 | COLLISION DETERMINATION DEVICE AND COLLISION DETERMINATION PROGRAM - A collision determination device includes a target cell designation unit that designates a target cell for a voxel model which represents the shape of a first object. A determination test point generation unit generates determination test points for the target cell. A spatial curve creation unit creates a spatial curve as the trajectory curve of a determination test point. A curve intersecting determination unit determines whether or not each boundary element of a boundary representation model representing the shape of a second object is intersecting the spatial curve. A distance computation unit computes the closest distance from the spatial curve to the boundary surface of the boundary representation model. A collision determination unit determines, based on the determination result and the computation result, whether there is a possibility of collision between both objects. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110304742 | IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SIMULTANEOUSLY REPRODUCING PLURALITY OF IMAGES - An image reproduction apparatus includes a flash memory which adds recording time information to an image and records the image, and a control unit which classifies images in the memory on the basis of the added time information, limits the number of classified images for each date to one, and causes a display unit to display a calendar image as a list of images. | 12-15-2011 |
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| 20080299502 | COATING AND DEVELOPING APPARATUS, OPERATING METHOD FOR SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR THE METHOD - In a coating and developing apparatus applied to liquid-immersion light exposure, substrates without an appropriately formed protective film can be recovered without adversely affecting normal-substrate processing efficiency, and in addition, removal of protective films can be simplified. In the coating and developing apparatus of the present invention, abnormal substrates not appropriately surface-coated with a protective film during liquid-immersion light exposure are queued in a queuing module, instead of being loaded into an exposure unit, and after the immediately preceding substrate has been unloaded from the exposure unit and loaded into a designated module, for example, a pre-developing second heating module, each abnormal substrate is loaded into the designated module in order to prevent so-called “scheduled transfer” from being affected, and a protective-film removing unit is also controlled to process the abnormal substrate. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090003825 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM - A cassette waiting block is connected to a transfer in/out block of a coating and developing treatment system, and in the cassette waiting block, a cassette transfer in/out unit, a cassette waiting unit, a cassette delivery unit, and a substrate processing unit are provided. In the cassette waiting block, a cassette transfer unit for transferring the cassette between the cassette transfer in/out unit, the cassette waiting unit, and the cassette deliver unit, and a transfer unit for transferring the substrate between the cassette in the cassette waiting unit and the substrate processing unit are provided. Each cassette waiting unit has an opening mechanism for opening a port of the cassette. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090021704 | COATING/DEVELOPING APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A coating/developing apparatus has a carrier block including a first transfer device, a process block including processing modules, an examination block including examination modules and a second transfer device, and first to forth stages. A controller executes a first operation mode preset to transfer substrates from the process block and carrier block into the examination block in parallel. The first operation mode includes transferring substrates processed by the process block to the third or fourth stage through or not through an examination module by the second transfer device, transferring substrates to be only examined from a carrier in the carrier block to the second stage by the first transfer device, and transferring these substrates from the second stage to an examination modules by the second transfer device, and transferring substrates thus examined from the examination block to the third or fourth stage by the second transfer device. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090041926 | COATING AND DEVELOPING APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - With regard to a group of substrates preceding a substrate of which residence time is under calculation, a time t | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090098298 | COATER/DEVELOPER, METHOD OF COATING AND DEVELOPING RESIST FILM, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORING MEDIUM - A transfer flow is produced in accordance with a process recipe of a process to be carried out. In the transfer flow, a type of modules listed in accordance with a substrate transfer order is associated with a necessary staying time from when the substrate is transferred into a module by a substrate transfer unit to when the substrate is ready to be transferred back to the substrate transfer unit after the corresponding process is finished. A cycle limiting time is determined to be the longest necessary transfer cycle time among those obtained by dividing the necessary staying time by the number of the modules mounted in the coater/developer. The number of the modules to be used is determined to be a value obtained by dividing the necessary staying time by the cycle limiting time or a nearest integer to which the value is raised. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20110014562 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD - A substrate transfer system to reduce total processing time by transferring a substrate at a first delivery stage to a process block where processing can be carried out earliest. The substrate processing apparatus includes a first transfer device delivering a wafer with respect to a substrate carrier, and a second transfer device delivering a wafer between a plurality of process blocks and the first transfer device via a first delivery stage, to transfer the wafer with respect to the process blocks. The process block where there is no wafer or where processing of the last wafer within the relevant process block will be completed earliest is determined based on processing information of the wafers from the process blocks, and the wafer of the first delivery stage is transferred by the second transfer device to the relevant process block. This ensures smooth transfer of the wafer to the process block. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110029122 | COATING AND DEVELOPING SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING COATING AND DEVELOPING SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A coating and developing system includes a cassette station, a processing station and an inspection station interposed between the cassette station and the processing station. Time for which a substrate is held uselessly in the inspection module is reduced. A substrate carrying means disposed in the inspection module places priority to transferring a substrate between the cassette station and the processing station, and transfers a substrate to an inspection module in a part of a cycle time in which a substrate carrying means disposed in the processing station carries out one carrying cycle. It is permitted to carry out a substrate from the inspection module in a skip carrying mode, in which a substrate specified by a larger ordinal numeral is carried ahead of a substrate specified by a smaller ordinal numeral. It is inhibited to carry a substrate to the inspection module in the skip carrying mode. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110262623 | COATER/DEVELOPER, METHOD OF COATING AND DEVELOPING RESIST FILM, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORING MEDIUM - A transfer flow is produced in accordance with a process recipe of a process to be carried out. In the transfer flow, a type of modules listed in accordance with a substrate transfer order is associated with a necessary staying time from when the substrate is transferred into a module by a substrate transfer unit to when the substrate is ready to be transferred back to the substrate transfer unit after the corresponding process is finished. A cycle limiting time is determined to be the longest necessary transfer cycle time among those obtained by dividing the necessary staying time by the number of the modules mounted in the coater/developer. The number of the modules to be used is determined to be a value obtained by dividing the necessary staying time by the cycle limiting time or a nearest integer to which the value is raised. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20120008936 | COATING AND DEVELOPING APPARATUS - A coating and developing apparatus includes a processing block having at least one coating film-forming unit block stack and a vertically stacked developing unit block stack. Each unit block stack includes vertically stacked unit blocks, and each unit block includes processing modules containing liquid processing modules and heating modules. Each unit block includes a transport mechanism moveable along a transport passage from a carrier block side to an interface block side, to transport a substrate between the processing modules belonging to the unit block. Transfer units are provided on the carrier block sides of the coating film-forming unit blocks and the developing unit blocks respectively, for transferring a substrate to and from the transport mechanism of the associated coating film-forming or developing unit blocks. A first transfer mechanism transfers a substrate removed from a carrier to one of the transfer units associated with the coating film-forming unit blocks. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009528 | COATING AND DEVELOPING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In one embodiment, a coating and developing apparatus includes a processing block including a vertical stack of early-stage processing unit blocks; a vertical stack of later-stage processing unit blocks disposed laterally adjacent to respective ones of the early-stage processing unit blocks; a vertical stack of developing unit blocks stacked on the early-stage processing unit blocks; a vertical stack of auxiliary processing unit blocks disposed laterally adjacent to respective ones of the developing unit blocks; first transfer units, each of which are disposed between the laterally adjacent early-stage processing unit and later-stage processing unit; second transfer units, each of which is disposed between the laterally adjacent developing unit block and auxiliary processing unit block; and a auxiliary transfer mechanism for transferring a substrate between the first transfer units and between the second transfer units. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120013859 | COATING AND DEVELOPING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In one embodiment, a coating and developing apparatus includes a processing block having two early-stage coating unit blocks, two later-stage coating unit blocks and two developing unit blocks, each unit blocks being vertically stacked on each other. The apparatus has at least two operation modes M | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120015307 | COATING AND DEVELOPING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In one embodiment, a coating and developing apparatus is provided with transfer units, provided between a stack of early-stage processing unit blocks and a stack of later-stage processing unit blocks to transfer a substrate between the transport mechanisms of laterally-adjacent unit blocks, and a vertically-movable auxiliary transfer mechanism for transporting a substrate between the transfer units. A stack of first developing unit blocks is stacked on the stack of early-stage processing unit blocks, and a stack of second developing unit blocks is stacked on the stack of later-stage processing unit blocks. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120057861 | COATING AND DEVELOPING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In one embodiment, a coating and developing apparatus is provided with a processing block including a liquid processing block disposed on the carrier block side and a heating processing block disposed on the interface block side. The liquid processing block includes a first unit block, a second unit block, and one or more of developing unit blocks overlying or underlying a stack of the first unit block and the second unit block. The first unit block includes antireflection film-forming modules and resist film-forming modules disposed on both sides of the transport passage thereof. The second unit block includes upper film-forming modules and hardening modules disposed on both sides of the transport passage thereof. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057862 | COATING AND DEVELOPING APPARATUS, COATING AND DEVELOPING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY TANGIBLE MEDIUM - A process block is formed by arranging a heating-process related block on the side of a carrier block, a group of liquid-process related unit blocks, and a heating block on the side of an interface block, in this order from the side of the carrier block to the side of the interface block. The group of liquid-process related unit blocks is composed of: a group of unit blocks for coating films that is formed by stacking upward a unit block for an antireflection film, a unit block for a resist film, and a unit bock for an upper layer film, in this order; and unit blocks for developing that are stacked on one another in the up and down direction with respect to the group of unit blocks for coating films. Liquid process modules of each of the liquid-process related unit blocks are arranged on the right and left sides of a transfer path for a substrate. | 03-08-2012 |
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| 20080240520 | Imaging apparatus, display control method and recording medium - In a digital camera | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090041444 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE WITH AUTOMATIC FOCUSING FUNCTION - In an image capture device comprising an image capture unit which captures an object and outputs image data, and a shutter button which is half pressable, fully pressable, and pressable at one stroke, a first determining unit determines whether the shutter button is half pressed, and a second determining unit which determines whether the shutter button is pressed at one stroke. When the first determining unit determines that the shutter button is half pressed, a first capture control unit executes a first capture process for recording the image data, and when the second determining unit determines that the shutter button is pressed at one stroke, a stop control unit stops the first capture process, and a second capture control unit executes a second capture process which differs from the first capture process after the first capture process is stopped by the stop control unit. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090322895 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image sensing apparatus according to this invention includes an image sensing unit which sequentially generates still image data, a holding unit which holds a plurality of still image data, a display unit which displays the still image data, a setting unit which sets a predetermined state as the start timing of shooting by the image sensing unit, a determination unit which determines whether the predetermined state has been obtained, a shooting control unit which causes the image sensing unit to start shooting when the determination unit determines that the predetermined state has been obtained, a display control unit which causes the display unit to sequentially display, at a display speed lower than an actual time, the still image data, a selection unit which selects one of a plurality of image data displayed on the display unit, and a recording unit which records the selected image data. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100067887 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE WITH AUTOMATIC FOCUSING FUNCTION - In a digital camera, a focus lens is moved at a low speed between a timing at which a shutter key is half pressed and a timing at which the shutter key is fully pressed to detect a focused position. When the shutter key is fully pressed by a user before the focus lens reaches a focused position, the focus lens is moved at a higher speed than that of a case in which the shutter key is half pressed, and a focused position is detected. Thereby, even when the shutter key is fully pressed by a user before the focus lens reaches the focused position, the digital camera can realize focusing with less delay in capturing. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100238304 | DIGITAL CAMERA FOR RECORDING STILL IMAGE WITH SPEECH - An image pickup method includes determining a start timing and an end timing of obtaining the speech to have a photographing timing of the still image taken by the image pickup unit therebetween, in accordance with a period in which the speech stored in the temporary speech storing unit satisfies a predetermined condition, and cutting out the speech stored in the temporary speech storing unit for a period from the start timing to the end timing determined, and storing the cut speech in the storing unit in association with the still image taken by the image pickup unit. | 09-23-2010 |
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| 20090016860 | SUBSTRATE CONVEY PROCESSING DEVICE, TROUBLE COUNTERMEASURE METHOD IN SUBSTRATE CONVEY PROCESSING DEVICE, AND TROUBLE COUNTERMEASURES PROGRAM IN SUBSTRATE CONVEY PROCESSING DEVICE - A plurality of process modules for conducting processes on a wafer; conveying modules for conveying the wafer, a turnout module for transferring the wafer to/from the conveying module, and a CPU for detecting a trouble occurring in the process module and centrally controlling each of the modules based on a detection signal. When the controller detects the trouble occurring in any one of the process modules, the wafer to be conveyed to the process module where the trouble occurs is conveyed to the turnout module, and conveyance of the wafer before the process module where the trouble occurs is temporarily stopped, and conveyance and processing of the other wafer are continued, and thereafter, conveyance and processing of the wafer before the process module where the trouble occurs are conducted. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090306700 | Balloon Catheter - A balloon catheter comprises a long shaft including an inner pipe and an outer pipe, and a balloon provided at a distal end of the shaft, a distal end of the balloon being connected to the inner pipe, a proximal end of the balloon being connected to the outer pipe, and the balloon being inflated and deflated according to pressure of fluid supplied to an inside of the balloon. The balloon is molded in advance such that the balloon is inflated by pressure only to an extent in which a film of the balloon is not stretched, such that the balloon becomes a curved shape having a curved part between the proximal end and the distal end of the balloon, and such that the balloon, when deflated, is folded so as to be in a straight shape, in which the curved part is hidden, and wound around the inner pipe. | 12-10-2009 |
