Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090005689 | ULTRASOUND ENDOSCOPE - An ultrasound endoscope including, at a distal end of an insertion portion to be inserted to a body cavity, a distal rigid portion arranged forward of a flexible tube portion, an ultrasound transducer portion for scanning a plane which is parallel to forward side of a longitudinal center axis L1 of the distal rigid portion, and a treatment instrument insertion channel port opening in a distal-side end face of the distal rigid portion, with a longitudinal center axis L4 being parallel to the longitudinal center axis L1 of the distal rigid portion. | 01-01-2009 |
20090056462 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PRESSURE SENSOR AND PRESSURE SENSOR - A manufacturing method of a pressure sensor that includes a pressure detector having a bottomed cylindrical member with a bottom including a thin-wall portion and a strain detecting mechanism provided on one side of the bottom for detecting a strain of the bottom and a pressure-introducing joint for introducing the fluid to be measured into the bottomed cylindrical member is provided. The method includes: first welding for butt-welding an end of the cylindrical portion of the bottomed cylindrical member and an end of the pressure-introducing joint; and second welding for welding the pressure-introducing joint in parallel to a first weld bead formed by the first welding. | 03-05-2009 |
20090108945 | FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER - A frequency synthesizer switches the frequency at a high rate, is of low power consumption, and has a high signal-to-noise ratio. CMOS quadrature VCOs | 04-30-2009 |
20090121795 | SYNTHESIZER - A synthesizer that has a phase detector | 05-14-2009 |
20090264794 | TISSUE BIOPSY NEEDLE APPARATUS - The present invention is intended to provide a tissue biopsy needle apparatus equipped with a protective cover which prevents a needle tube from being ejected unnecessarily when an urging member is compressed in preparation for ejection of the needle tube. For that, the tissue biopsy needle apparatus includes a spring | 10-22-2009 |
20100176888 | VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR, FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER, AND OSCILLATION FREQUENCY CONTROL METHOD - A voltage controlled oscillator is provided to make it possible to enlarge a variable frequency range with an increase in a conversion gain suppressed. A converter ( | 07-15-2010 |
20110068843 | BAND ADJUSTMENT DEVICE OF POLYPHASE FILTER AND BAND ADJUSTMENT METHOD OF POLYPHASE FILTER - Provided is a base adjustment device and method of a polyphase filter that can reduce an area and power consumption, and operate at a high speed. The band adjustment device of the polyphase filter according to the present invention includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), a polyphase filter that inputs an output from the VCO, a mixer that receives an output from the polyphase filter, an envelope detection circuit (envelope detector) that inputs an output from the mixer, and a band control signal generation circuit that inputs an output from the envelope detector. | 03-24-2011 |
20110115879 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an omnidirectional imaging unit that captures and generates an image of a visual field all around an axis as omnidirectional image data; an image converter that converts at least a part of the omnidirectional image data, which is generated by the omnidirectional imaging unit, to image data having a rectangular display area and thereby generates conversion image data; and a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the conversion image data, which is generated by the image converter. The omnidirectional image data forms an annular shape. | 05-19-2011 |
20110122233 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup unit; a first connection unit that allows a stereoscopic shooting interchangeable lens and an ordinary shooting interchangeable lens to be selectively attached thereto so that an image of a subject can be formed on the image pickup unit; a second connection unit that allows a finder including two display units corresponding to a right eye and a left eye, the finder being capable of displaying a plurality of images, and a finder including a single display unit, the finder being capable of displaying a single image, to be selectively attached thereto; and a display control unit that controls display of an image picked up by the image pickup unit on the finder, based on at least one of information on the interchangeable lens connected to the first connection unit and information on the finder connected to the second connection unit. | 05-26-2011 |
20120147251 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL SYSTEM USED FOR IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus comprises an optical system that includes a plurality of lens groups, each lens group including one or more lenses, at least one of the lens groups being independently movable with respect to the other lens groups and including a focus lens group for focusing the subject and a lens control unit that controls movement of the plurality of lens groups to bring into focus based on a feeding position of the focus lens group. | 06-14-2012 |
20120307947 | SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An exemplary object is to provide a signal processing circuit, a wireless communication device, and a signal processing method for reducing crosstalk of an adjacent interfering signal in a desired signal. A signal processing circuit | 12-06-2012 |
20120313680 | POWER DETECTION CIRCUIT AND POWER DETECTION METHOD - A power detection circuit according to the present invention includes a variable frequency oscillator | 12-13-2012 |
20140022447 | Image Pickup Apparatus and Zoom Lens Used in Image Pickup Apparatus - The 1st positive lens unit is located closer to the object side at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. The distance between the 1st negative lens unit and the 1st positive lens unit is larger at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. The distance between the image side lens unit group and the 1st negative lens unit varies during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. The image side lens unit group comprises a 2nd positive lens unit and a 3rd positive lens unit. The distance between the 2nd positive lens unit and the 1st negative lens unit is smaller at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. The distance between the 3rd positive lens unit and the 2nd positive lens unit varies during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. | 01-23-2014 |
20140132790 | Zoom Lens and Image Pickup Apparatus Equipped with Same - A zoom lens includes a frontmost lens unit, which is located closest to the object side and a plurality of lens units located closer to the image side than the frontmost lens unit. All the distances between adjacent lens units vary during zooming in the state in which the zoom lens is focused on an object at infinity. One of the plurality of lens units is a first focusing lens unit. During focusing from an object at infinity to an object at a short distance in a first shooting mode, only the first focusing lens unit moves. During focusing from an object at infinity to an object at a short distance in a second shooting mode, two lens units in the zoom lens move. | 05-15-2014 |
20140185148 | ZOOM LENS - In a zoom lens of a fixed total length, at the time of changing the magnification from the wide-angle end toward the telephoto end, the first lens group is anchored while the second lens group is moved, and the third and fourth lens groups are moved so as to be located at the object side of the telephoto end relative to the wide-angle end, such that: the interval between the second and third lens groups is decreased at the telephoto end relative to the wide-angle end; the interval between the third and fourth lens groups is increased at the telephoto end relative to the wide-angle end; and the interval between the fourth and fifth lens groups is increased at the telephoto end relative to the wide-angle end, and at the time of focusing a near object point from a remote object point, the second lens group is moved. | 07-03-2014 |
20140368616 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup unit; a first connection unit that allows a stereoscopic shooting interchangeable lens and an ordinary shooting interchangeable lens to be selectively attached thereto so that an image of a subject can be formed on the image pickup unit; a second connection unit that allows a finder including two display units corresponding to a right eye and a left eye, the finder being capable of displaying a plurality of images, and a finder including a single display unit, the finder being capable of displaying a single image, to be selectively attached thereto; and a display control unit that controls display of an image picked up by the image pickup unit on the finder, based on at least one of information on the interchangeable lens connected to the first connection unit and information on the finder connected to the second connection unit. | 12-18-2014 |
20150015745 | Zoom Lens and Image Pickup Apparatus Equipped with Same - There is provided a zoom lens in which the load on the driving system for wobbling operation can easily made low and an image pickup apparatus equipped with the same. A zoom lens in which each of distances between a plurality of lens units changes during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, includes a focus lens unit that shifts along an optical axis to effect focusing from infinity to a close distance and a plurality of wobbling lens units that wobble after a shift of the focus lens unit at an amplitude smaller than the shift of the focus lens unit in focusing operation, wherein a combination of the wobbling lens units caused to operate changes in the middle of the zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. | 01-15-2015 |